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Procedure price report · Insertion of catheter or spinal stimulator and injection into spinal canal

Neck or mid-back epidural injection with imaging guidance

CPT 62321the billing code this page is about

Injection of medication between the vertebral bones into the epidural or spinal fluid space of the neck or mid-back, guided by X-ray or CT.

Hospitals typically charge $1,191 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,277 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,292. Most fall between $603 and $2,287 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,277
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 2,277 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
$375$688$1,191$2,034$3,333

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($375 vs $3,333).

How the prices are spread

$222 – $302: 59 hospitals$222$302 – $413: 106 hospitals$413 – $563: 139 hospitals$413$563 – $769: 251 hospitals$769 – $1,049: 313 hospitals$769$1,049 – $1,432: 317 hospitals$1,432 – $1,954: 373 hospitals$1,432$1,954 – $2,666: 244 hospitals$2,666 – $3,639: 163 hospitals$2,666$3,639 – $4,966: 98 hospitals$3,639median $1,191price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,063 of 2,277 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$222$30259
$302$413106
$413$563139
$563$769251
$769$1,049313
$1,049$1,432317
$1,432$1,954373
$1,954$2,666244
$2,666$3,639163
$3,639$4,96698

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$721
Median cash price$1,191
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.65×

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 $1,191.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $696 across 20 hospitalsME$696Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $701 across 16 hospitalsNH$701Washington: median $1,241 across 59 hospitalsWA$1,241Idaho: median $1,618 across 20 hospitalsID$1,618Montana: median $778 across 17 hospitalsMT$778North Dakota: median $712 across 12 hospitalsND$712Minnesota: median $1,132 across 88 hospitalsMN$1,132Illinois: median $1,370 across 97 hospitalsIL$1,370Wisconsin: median $834 across 80 hospitalsWI$834Michigan: median $772 across 71 hospitalsMI$772New York: median $1,103 across 77 hospitalsNY$1,103Massachusetts: median $1,621 across 39 hospitalsMA$1,621Oregon: median $1,107 across 38 hospitalsOR$1,107Nevada: median $767 across 16 hospitalsNV$767Wyoming: median $488 across 12 hospitalsWY$488South Dakota: median $711 across 14 hospitalsSD$711Iowa: median $802 across 84 hospitalsIA$802Indiana: median $603 across 50 hospitalsIN$603Ohio: median $2,234 across 124 hospitalsOH$2,234Pennsylvania: median $1,416 across 89 hospitalsPA$1,416New Jersey: median $923 across 50 hospitalsNJ$923Connecticut: median $2,375 across 19 hospitalsCT$2,375Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,933 across 142 hospitalsCA$1,933Utah: median $1,618 across 32 hospitalsUT$1,618Colorado: median $1,052 across 58 hospitalsCO$1,052Nebraska: median $1,098 across 56 hospitalsNE$1,098Missouri: median $1,062 across 61 hospitalsMO$1,062Kentucky: median $1,025 across 34 hospitalsKY$1,025West Virginia: median $928 across 25 hospitalsWV$928Virginia: median $1,191 across 47 hospitalsVA$1,191Maryland: 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 $1,256 across 38 hospitalsAZ$1,256New Mexico: median $899 across 15 hospitalsNM$899Kansas: median $817 across 72 hospitalsKS$817Arkansas: median $608 across 17 hospitalsAR$608Tennessee: median $742 across 41 hospitalsTN$742North Carolina: median $1,228 across 56 hospitalsNC$1,228South Carolina: median $1,565 across 35 hospitalsSC$1,565Oklahoma: median $661 across 43 hospitalsOK$661Louisiana: median $905 across 36 hospitalsLA$905Mississippi: median $526 across 32 hospitalsMS$526Alabama: median $951 across 24 hospitalsAL$951Georgia: median $1,658 across 68 hospitalsGA$1,658Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,346 across 137 hospitalsTX$1,346Florida: median $2,165 across 76 hospitalsFL$2,165
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,191. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Connecticut CT19$2,375+99%$970 – $3,657
Ohio OH124$2,234+88%$1,147 – $3,106
Florida FL76$2,165+82%$1,124 – $3,882
California CA142$1,933+62%$903 – $4,966
Georgia GA68$1,658+39%$1,152 – $3,688
Massachusetts MA39$1,621+36%$687 – $2,456
Idaho ID20$1,618+36%$319 – $1,961
Utah UT32$1,618+36%$1,170 – $1,903
South Carolina SC35$1,565+31%$1,293 – $1,968
Pennsylvania PA89$1,416+19%$704 – $3,722
Illinois IL97$1,370+15%$585 – $2,518
Texas TX137$1,346+13%$886 – $2,034
Arizona AZ38$1,256+5%$865 – $5,801
Washington WA59$1,241+4%$536 – $1,879
North Carolina NC56$1,228+3%$992 – $2,789
Virginia VA47$1,1910%$909 – $1,938
Minnesota MN88$1,132−5%$671 – $1,736
Oregon OR38$1,107−7%$472 – $1,920
New York NY77$1,103−7%$625 – $2,800
Nebraska NE56$1,098−8%$533 – $1,666
Missouri MO61$1,062−11%$392 – $2,141
Colorado CO58$1,052−12%$797 – $1,838
Kentucky KY34$1,025−14%$592 – $2,067
Alabama AL24$951−20%$579 – $4,269
West Virginia WV25$928−22%$698 – $1,798
New Jersey NJ50$923−22%$767 – $5,110
Louisiana LA36$905−24%$627 – $1,391
New Mexico NM15$899−24%$663 – $1,603
Wisconsin WI80$834−30%$541 – $1,697
Kansas KS72$817−31%$343 – $1,394
Iowa IA84$802−33%$524 – $1,681
Montana MT17$778−35%$224 – $1,356
Michigan MI71$772−35%$169 – $1,153
Nevada NV16$767−36%$430 – $1,330
Tennessee TN41$742−38%$203 – $1,235
North Dakota ND12$712−40%$641 – $1,537
South Dakota SD14$711−40%$650 – $1,718
New Hampshire NH16$701−41%$185 – $1,272
Maine ME20$696−42%$294 – $1,414
Oklahoma OK43$661−45%$312 – $1,057
Arkansas AR17$608−49%$375 – $913
Indiana IN50$603−49%$334 – $1,370
Mississippi MS32$526−56%$404 – $1,183
Wyoming WY12$488−59%$304 – $1,658
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not 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 $1,191.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,675$1,362$687 – $2,530
Children’s26$1,879$761 – $3,432
Critical access568$853$413 – $1,658
Ownership
For-profit228$1,295$705 – $2,447
Government416$928$477 – $1,832
Non-profit1,625$1,256$618 – $2,404
System affiliation
Part of a system1,867$1,295$645 – $2,460
Independent410$928$375 – $1,786

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,229
Median cash price$1,191
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

1,608 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,391 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,439; most fall between $659 and $2,518.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,608 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
$399$772$1,391$2,234$3,352

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($399 vs $3,352).

Of the 1,715 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,608 gave a usable cash price; 36 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 70 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,277 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (58%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,445 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,277
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded7
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded87
Hospitals that filed this code2,445

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 Insertion of catheter or spinal stimulator and injection into spinal canal family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Njx Dx/Ther Sbst Intrlmnr Crv/Thrc W/Img Gdn.

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, “Neck or mid-back epidural injection with imaging guidance (CPT 62321) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-62321-neck-or-mid-back-epidural-injection-with-imaging-guidance