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Procedure price report · Myelogram

Myelogram of the mid-back with dye injection

CPT 62303the billing code this page is about

Dye is injected through a needle in the lower back and X-ray images of the thoracic spine are taken and interpreted; this code covers the imaging and injection for one spinal region.

Hospitals typically charge $1,537 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,782 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,597. Most fall between $851 and $2,717 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,782
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 1,782 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$538$935$1,537$2,355$3,543

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($538 vs $3,543).

How the prices are spread

$372 – $475: 61 hospitals$372$475 – $607: 51 hospitals$607 – $776: 99 hospitals$607$776 – $992: 195 hospitals$992 – $1,268: 188 hospitals$992$1,268 – $1,621: 263 hospitals$1,621 – $2,072: 258 hospitals$1,621$2,072 – $2,648: 201 hospitals$2,648 – $3,384: 156 hospitals$2,648$3,384 – $4,326: 133 hospitals$3,384median $1,537price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,605 of 1,782 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$372$47561
$475$60751
$607$77699
$776$992195
$992$1,268188
$1,268$1,621263
$1,621$2,072258
$2,072$2,648201
$2,648$3,384156
$3,384$4,326133

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$801
Median cash price$1,537
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.92×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,537.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,556 across 44 hospitalsWA$1,556Idaho: median $1,871 across 11 hospitalsID$1,871Montana: median $412 across 15 hospitalsMT$412North Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,400 across 46 hospitalsMN$1,400Illinois: median $1,878 across 70 hospitalsIL$1,878Wisconsin: median $1,598 across 75 hospitalsWI$1,598Michigan: median $1,352 across 61 hospitalsMI$1,352New York: median $979 across 56 hospitalsNY$979Massachusetts: median $1,600 across 21 hospitalsMA$1,600Oregon: median $1,656 across 34 hospitalsOR$1,656Nevada: median $852 across 10 hospitalsNV$852Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,519 across 25 hospitalsIA$1,519Indiana: median $2,197 across 59 hospitalsIN$2,197Ohio: median $2,713 across 109 hospitalsOH$2,713Pennsylvania: median $1,148 across 86 hospitalsPA$1,148New Jersey: median $1,054 across 46 hospitalsNJ$1,054Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,820 across 126 hospitalsCA$1,820Utah: median $1,861 across 24 hospitalsUT$1,861Colorado: median $1,549 across 43 hospitalsCO$1,549Nebraska: median $912 across 26 hospitalsNE$912Missouri: median $1,371 across 42 hospitalsMO$1,371Kentucky: median $1,333 across 31 hospitalsKY$1,333West Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,692 across 38 hospitalsVA$1,692Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $969 across 36 hospitalsAZ$969New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $3,357 across 23 hospitalsKS$3,357Arkansas: median $576 across 16 hospitalsAR$576Tennessee: median $637 across 39 hospitalsTN$637North Carolina: median $1,695 across 47 hospitalsNC$1,695South Carolina: median $2,475 across 36 hospitalsSC$2,475Oklahoma: median $947 across 39 hospitalsOK$947Louisiana: median $1,080 across 32 hospitalsLA$1,080Mississippi: median $827 across 36 hospitalsMS$827Alabama: median $1,134 across 27 hospitalsAL$1,134Georgia: median $1,789 across 61 hospitalsGA$1,789Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,818 across 133 hospitalsTX$1,818Florida: median $1,570 across 74 hospitalsFL$1,570
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,537. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kansas KS23$3,357+118%$738 – $4,432
Ohio OH109$2,713+77%$1,335 – $3,543
South Carolina SC36$2,475+61%$1,182 – $2,683
Indiana IN59$2,197+43%$1,081 – $3,339
Illinois IL70$1,878+22%$765 – $3,070
Idaho ID11$1,871+22%$1,861 – $1,951
Utah UT24$1,861+21%$1,861 – $2,189
California CA126$1,820+18%$1,145 – $3,548
Texas TX133$1,818+18%$1,138 – $3,285
Georgia GA61$1,789+16%$1,229 – $3,113
North Carolina NC47$1,695+10%$721 – $2,210
Virginia VA38$1,692+10%$512 – $2,841
Oregon OR34$1,656+8%$1,221 – $2,349
Massachusetts MA21$1,600+4%$1,290 – $2,976
Wisconsin WI75$1,598+4%$1,084 – $1,934
Florida FL74$1,570+2%$1,135 – $2,905
Washington WA44$1,556+1%$1,000 – $2,118
Colorado CO43$1,549+1%$1,111 – $3,057
Iowa IA25$1,519−1%$714 – $1,972
Minnesota MN46$1,400−9%$753 – $2,577
Missouri MO42$1,371−11%$810 – $2,160
Michigan MI61$1,352−12%$241 – $2,064
Kentucky KY31$1,333−13%$694 – $7,290
Pennsylvania PA86$1,148−25%$926 – $2,158
Alabama AL27$1,134−26%$788 – $1,480
Louisiana LA32$1,080−30%$473 – $1,712
New Jersey NJ46$1,054−31%$874 – $4,881
New York NY56$979−36%$801 – $2,223
Arizona AZ36$969−37%$778 – $4,267
Oklahoma OK39$947−38%$716 – $1,446
Nebraska NE26$912−41%$637 – $1,746
Nevada NV10$852−45%$232 – $1,120
Mississippi MS36$827−46%$478 – $960
Tennessee TN39$637−59%$396 – $1,420
Arkansas AR16$576−63%$555 – $1,023
Montana MT15$412−73%$170 – $1,020
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $1,537.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,518$1,544$863 – $2,705
Children’s27$1,586$925 – $3,258
Critical access229$1,430$598 – $2,476
Ownership
For-profit181$1,555$876 – $2,905
Government230$1,404$758 – $2,265
Non-profit1,363$1,553$861 – $2,816
System affiliation
Part of a system1,511$1,570$875 – $2,786
Independent271$1,308$676 – $2,578

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,800
Median cash price$1,537
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

1,396 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,687 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,713; most fall between $912 and $2,816.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,396 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$657$1,054$1,687$2,469$3,543

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($657 vs $3,543).

Of the 1,502 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,396 gave a usable cash price; 44 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 61 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,782 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (45%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,929 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,782
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here74
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded69
Hospitals that filed this code1,929

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Myelogram family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Myelography via Lumbar Injection Rs&I Thoracic.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Myelogram of the mid-back with dye injection (CPT 62303) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-62303-myelogram-of-the-mid-back-with-dye-injection