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

Lower back epidural injection without imaging guidance

CPT 62322the billing code this page is about

Injection of medication between the vertebral bones into the epidural or spinal fluid space of the lower back or sacrum, done without X-ray or CT guidance.

Hospitals typically charge $1,114 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,926 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,150. Most fall between $484 and $1,977 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,926
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 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
$240$608$1,114$1,738$3,032

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($240 vs $3,032).

How the prices are spread

$168 – $232: 78 hospitals$168$232 – $321: 80 hospitals$321 – $445: 105 hospitals$321$445 – $616: 128 hospitals$616 – $854: 213 hospitals$616$854 – $1,182: 337 hospitals$1,182 – $1,638: 325 hospitals$1,182$1,638 – $2,268: 257 hospitals$2,268 – $3,141: 127 hospitals$2,268$3,141 – $4,350: 84 hospitals$3,141median $1,114price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,734 of 1,926 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$168$23278
$232$32180
$321$445105
$445$616128
$616$854213
$854$1,182337
$1,182$1,638325
$1,638$2,268257
$2,268$3,141127
$3,141$4,35084

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$904
Median cash price$1,114
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.23×

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 $1,114.

Alaska: median $1,720 across 11 hospitalsAK$1,720Maine: median $534 across 17 hospitalsME$534Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $541 across 13 hospitalsNH$541Washington: median $1,038 across 57 hospitalsWA$1,038Idaho: median $2,430 across 10 hospitalsID$2,430Montana: median $606 across 15 hospitalsMT$606North Dakota: median $915 across 12 hospitalsND$915Minnesota: median $961 across 69 hospitalsMN$961Illinois: median $1,115 across 84 hospitalsIL$1,115Wisconsin: median $825 across 72 hospitalsWI$825Michigan: median $1,028 across 62 hospitalsMI$1,028New York: median $1,130 across 76 hospitalsNY$1,130Massachusetts: median $1,057 across 37 hospitalsMA$1,057Oregon: median $797 across 40 hospitalsOR$797Nevada: median $962 across 11 hospitalsNV$962Wyoming: median $264 across 12 hospitalsWY$264South Dakota: median $1,299 across 15 hospitalsSD$1,299Iowa: median $602 across 57 hospitalsIA$602Indiana: median $867 across 49 hospitalsIN$867Ohio: median $1,636 across 100 hospitalsOH$1,636Pennsylvania: median $1,261 across 65 hospitalsPA$1,261New Jersey: median $2,416 across 45 hospitalsNJ$2,416Connecticut: median $1,512 across 11 hospitalsCT$1,512Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,648 across 137 hospitalsCA$1,648Utah: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $768 across 41 hospitalsCO$768Nebraska: median $629 across 47 hospitalsNE$629Missouri: median $1,020 across 52 hospitalsMO$1,020Kentucky: median $885 across 26 hospitalsKY$885West Virginia: median $1,017 across 27 hospitalsWV$1,017Virginia: median $1,416 across 33 hospitalsVA$1,416Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,085 across 25 hospitalsAZ$1,085New Mexico: median $1,799 across 18 hospitalsNM$1,799Kansas: median $634 across 51 hospitalsKS$634Arkansas: median $608 across 22 hospitalsAR$608Tennessee: median $632 across 28 hospitalsTN$632North Carolina: median $1,177 across 41 hospitalsNC$1,177South Carolina: median $1,577 across 26 hospitalsSC$1,577Oklahoma: median $821 across 38 hospitalsOK$821Louisiana: median $411 across 32 hospitalsLA$411Mississippi: median $492 across 25 hospitalsMS$492Alabama: median $1,127 across 18 hospitalsAL$1,127Georgia: median $1,661 across 58 hospitalsGA$1,661Hawaii: median $958 across 11 hospitalsHI$958Texas: median $1,234 across 123 hospitalsTX$1,234Florida: median $2,080 across 81 hospitalsFL$2,080
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,114. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID10$2,430+118%$425 – $2,430
New Jersey NJ45$2,416+117%$985 – $4,627
Florida FL81$2,080+87%$974 – $4,070
New Mexico NM18$1,799+62%$522 – $2,113
Alaska AK11$1,720+54%$865 – $3,108
Georgia GA58$1,661+49%$1,078 – $1,947
California CA137$1,648+48%$905 – $4,288
Ohio OH100$1,636+47%$1,250 – $3,993
South Carolina SC26$1,577+42%$1,368 – $3,465
Connecticut CT11$1,512+36%$970 – $2,348
Virginia VA33$1,416+27%$1,104 – $1,938
South Dakota SD15$1,299+17%$659 – $1,620
Pennsylvania PA65$1,261+13%$843 – $1,957
Texas TX123$1,234+11%$923 – $1,616
North Carolina NC41$1,177+6%$895 – $1,601
New York NY76$1,130+1%$615 – $2,750
Alabama AL18$1,127+1%$642 – $1,781
Illinois IL84$1,1150%$388 – $2,575
Arizona AZ25$1,085−3%$617 – $1,413
Massachusetts MA37$1,057−5%$744 – $2,368
Washington WA57$1,038−7%$258 – $1,879
Michigan MI62$1,028−8%$158 – $1,367
Missouri MO52$1,020−8%$420 – $1,772
West Virginia WV27$1,017−9%$847 – $1,802
Nevada NV11$962−14%$410 – $2,034
Minnesota MN69$961−14%$478 – $1,198
Hawaii HI11$958−14%$638 – $1,701
North Dakota ND12$915−18%$178 – $1,355
Kentucky KY26$885−21%$481 – $1,436
Indiana IN49$867−22%$419 – $1,682
Wisconsin WI72$825−26%$240 – $1,187
Oklahoma OK38$821−26%$520 – $1,460
Oregon OR40$797−28%$240 – $2,539
Colorado CO41$768−31%$454 – $1,556
Kansas KS51$634−43%$273 – $850
Tennessee TN28$632−43%$200 – $937
Nebraska NE47$629−44%$293 – $1,330
Arkansas AR22$608−45%$394 – $1,052
Montana MT15$606−46%$148 – $1,090
Iowa IA57$602−46%$371 – $1,510
New Hampshire NH13$541−51%$98 – $937
Maine ME17$534−52%$325 – $1,210
Mississippi MS25$492−56%$200 – $819
Louisiana LA32$411−63%$290 – $750
Wyoming WY12$264−76%$139 – $868
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $1,114.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,414$1,211$617 – $2,184
Children’s46$1,467$654 – $4,199
Critical access459$750$270 – $1,401
Ownership
For-profit174$1,211$606 – $2,113
Government344$795$317 – $1,588
Non-profit1,401$1,169$512 – $2,132
System affiliation
Part of a system1,594$1,177$540 – $2,114
Independent332$769$225 – $1,566

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,971
Median cash price$1,114
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

1,353 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,187 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,212; most fall between $518 and $1,983.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,353 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
$240$634$1,187$1,772$2,734

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($240 vs $2,734).

Of the 1,437 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,353 gave a usable cash price; 40 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 44 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 2,056 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 here79
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded49
Hospitals that filed this code2,056

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 Lmbr/Sac W/O 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, “Lower back epidural injection without imaging guidance (CPT 62322) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-62322-lower-back-epidural-injection-without-imaging-guidance