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Procedure price report · Myelogram

Spine dye study of two or more regions with imaging

CPT 62305the billing code this page is about

Contrast is injected through a needle in the lower back and X-ray images covering two or more regions of the spinal canal are taken and interpreted.

Hospitals typically charge $1,761 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,926 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,888. Most fall between $897 and $3,203 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,926
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 1,926 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
$589$991$1,761$2,903$4,188

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($589 vs $4,188).

How the prices are spread

$399 – $517: 63 hospitals$399$517 – $670: 71 hospitals$670 – $868: 136 hospitals$670$868 – $1,125: 192 hospitals$1,125 – $1,458: 200 hospitals$1,125$1,458 – $1,890: 258 hospitals$1,890 – $2,450: 238 hospitals$1,890$2,450 – $3,175: 263 hospitals$3,175 – $4,116: 211 hospitals$3,175$4,116 – $5,335: 109 hospitals$4,116median $1,761price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,741 of 1,926 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$399$51763
$517$67071
$670$868136
$868$1,125192
$1,125$1,458200
$1,458$1,890258
$1,890$2,450238
$2,450$3,175263
$3,175$4,116211
$4,116$5,335109

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$801
Median cash price$1,761
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.2×

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 $1,761.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,586 across 48 hospitalsWA$1,586Idaho: median $1,871 across 13 hospitalsID$1,871Montana: median $436 across 15 hospitalsMT$436North Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $928 across 37 hospitalsMN$928Illinois: median $2,279 across 83 hospitalsIL$2,279Wisconsin: median $1,736 across 76 hospitalsWI$1,736Michigan: median $1,674 across 67 hospitalsMI$1,674New York: median $979 across 66 hospitalsNY$979Massachusetts: median $1,405 across 20 hospitalsMA$1,405Oregon: median $1,741 across 31 hospitalsOR$1,741Nevada: median $852 across 13 hospitalsNV$852Wyoming: 7 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 27 hospitalsIA$1,519Indiana: median $2,872 across 67 hospitalsIN$2,872Ohio: median $2,959 across 119 hospitalsOH$2,959Pennsylvania: median $1,252 across 89 hospitalsPA$1,252New Jersey: median $2,551 across 49 hospitalsNJ$2,551Connecticut: median $975 across 12 hospitalsCT$975Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,758 across 127 hospitalsCA$2,758Utah: median $2,084 across 26 hospitalsUT$2,084Colorado: median $1,912 across 45 hospitalsCO$1,912Nebraska: median $1,606 across 25 hospitalsNE$1,606Missouri: median $2,236 across 46 hospitalsMO$2,236Kentucky: median $1,526 across 30 hospitalsKY$1,526West Virginia: median $1,202 across 14 hospitalsWV$1,202Virginia: median $2,355 across 42 hospitalsVA$2,355Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,233 across 39 hospitalsAZ$1,233New Mexico: median $1,102 across 10 hospitalsNM$1,102Kansas: median $3,357 across 25 hospitalsKS$3,357Arkansas: median $795 across 19 hospitalsAR$795Tennessee: median $558 across 47 hospitalsTN$558North Carolina: median $2,077 across 49 hospitalsNC$2,077South Carolina: median $2,775 across 37 hospitalsSC$2,775Oklahoma: median $1,029 across 40 hospitalsOK$1,029Louisiana: median $1,221 across 33 hospitalsLA$1,221Mississippi: median $848 across 35 hospitalsMS$848Alabama: median $1,532 across 33 hospitalsAL$1,532Georgia: median $2,517 across 68 hospitalsGA$2,517Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,198 across 145 hospitalsTX$2,198Florida: median $2,280 across 90 hospitalsFL$2,280
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,761. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kansas KS25$3,357+91%$1,356 – $5,039
Ohio OH119$2,959+68%$1,723 – $3,586
Indiana IN67$2,872+63%$1,329 – $4,647
South Carolina SC37$2,775+58%$1,291 – $3,166
California CA127$2,758+57%$1,322 – $4,178
New Jersey NJ49$2,551+45%$874 – $4,881
Georgia GA68$2,517+43%$1,636 – $3,899
Virginia VA42$2,355+34%$1,043 – $3,844
Florida FL90$2,280+29%$1,611 – $3,276
Illinois IL83$2,279+29%$697 – $3,556
Missouri MO46$2,236+27%$917 – $3,400
Texas TX145$2,198+25%$1,249 – $3,626
Utah UT26$2,084+18%$2,084 – $2,452
North Carolina NC49$2,077+18%$830 – $2,449
Colorado CO45$1,912+9%$1,165 – $2,802
Idaho ID13$1,871+6%$1,586 – $1,977
Oregon OR31$1,741−1%$1,416 – $2,785
Wisconsin WI76$1,736−1%$1,237 – $2,770
Michigan MI67$1,674−5%$650 – $2,374
Nebraska NE25$1,606−9%$576 – $2,999
Washington WA48$1,586−10%$1,149 – $2,490
Alabama AL33$1,532−13%$867 – $3,475
Kentucky KY30$1,526−13%$759 – $8,456
Iowa IA27$1,519−14%$794 – $2,111
Massachusetts MA20$1,405−20%$904 – $1,940
Pennsylvania PA89$1,252−29%$926 – $2,290
Arizona AZ39$1,233−30%$925 – $5,335
Louisiana LA33$1,221−31%$731 – $2,750
West Virginia WV14$1,202−32%$419 – $2,990
New Mexico NM10$1,102−37%$699 – $1,298
Oklahoma OK40$1,029−42%$788 – $2,042
New York NY66$979−44%$694 – $2,469
Connecticut CT12$975−45%$860 – $3,473
Minnesota MN37$928−47%$404 – $2,671
Nevada NV13$852−52%$376 – $3,277
Mississippi MS35$848−52%$598 – $1,046
Arkansas AR19$795−55%$542 – $1,770
Tennessee TN47$558−68%$407 – $1,295
Montana MT15$436−75%$175 – $717
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not 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 $1,761.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,662$1,770$910 – $3,225
Children’s28$1,563$731 – $4,419
Critical access227$1,736$666 – $2,950
Ownership
For-profit206$1,843$906 – $3,663
Government254$1,701$837 – $2,903
Non-profit1,457$1,760$903 – $3,214
System affiliation
Part of a system1,633$1,820$918 – $3,227
Independent293$1,586$694 – $2,786

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,173
Median cash price$1,761
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

1,500 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,985 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,034; most fall between $991 and $3,203.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,500 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
$652$1,151$1,985$2,989$3,998

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($652 vs $3,998).

Of the 1,607 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,500 gave a usable cash price; 47 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 59 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,926 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (49%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,074 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,926
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here75
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded7
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded65
Hospitals that filed this code2,074

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 2+ Regions.

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, “Spine dye study of two or more regions with imaging (CPT 62305) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-62305-spine-dye-study-of-two-or-more-regions-with-imaging