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

Lower back spinal injection by catheter, no imaging

CPT 62326the billing code this page is about

Medication is delivered into the epidural or spinal fluid space of the lower back or sacrum through a catheter left in place, without X-ray or CT guidance.

Hospitals typically charge $1,260 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,138 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,290. Most fall between $503 and $2,253 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,138
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2024 – 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 1,138 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
$246$615$1,260$2,022$3,274

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($246 vs $3,274).

How the prices are spread

$169 – $234: 56 hospitals$169$234 – $323: 48 hospitals$323 – $445: 45 hospitals$323$445 – $615: 87 hospitals$615 – $849: 96 hospitals$615$849 – $1,171: 151 hospitals$1,171 – $1,617: 192 hospitals$1,171$1,617 – $2,232: 173 hospitals$2,232 – $3,081: 115 hospitals$2,232$3,081 – $4,252: 73 hospitals$3,081median $1,260price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,036 of 1,138 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$169$23456
$234$32348
$323$44545
$445$61587
$615$84996
$849$1,171151
$1,171$1,617192
$1,617$2,232173
$2,232$3,081115
$3,081$4,25273

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$904
Median cash price$1,260
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.39×

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 $1,260.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $786 across 31 hospitalsWA$786Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $797 across 42 hospitalsMN$797Illinois: median $1,369 across 41 hospitalsIL$1,369Wisconsin: median $1,039 across 41 hospitalsWI$1,039Michigan: median $950 across 55 hospitalsMI$950New York: median $1,054 across 42 hospitalsNY$1,054Massachusetts: median $1,786 across 19 hospitalsMA$1,786Oregon: median $1,150 across 29 hospitalsOR$1,150Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,979 across 10 hospitalsSD$1,979Iowa: median $598 across 40 hospitalsIA$598Indiana: median $697 across 28 hospitalsIN$697Ohio: median $1,780 across 60 hospitalsOH$1,780Pennsylvania: median $1,821 across 39 hospitalsPA$1,821New Jersey: median $3,786 across 31 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,447 across 86 hospitalsCA$2,447Utah: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $733 across 14 hospitalsCO$733Nebraska: median $738 across 20 hospitalsNE$738Missouri: median $871 across 24 hospitalsMO$871Kentucky: median $1,469 across 13 hospitalsKY$1,469West Virginia: median $94 across 12 hospitalsWV$94Virginia: median $1,570 across 25 hospitalsVA$1,570Maryland: 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 $1,110 across 16 hospitalsAZ$1,110New Mexico: median $1,359 across 12 hospitalsNM$1,359Kansas: median $603 across 19 hospitalsKS$603Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $709 across 21 hospitalsTN$709North Carolina: median $1,427 across 26 hospitalsNC$1,427South Carolina: median $1,486 across 17 hospitalsSC$1,486Oklahoma: median $499 across 30 hospitalsOK$499Louisiana: median $558 across 32 hospitalsLA$558Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,235 across 34 hospitalsGA$2,235Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,494 across 82 hospitalsTX$1,494Florida: median $2,137 across 39 hospitalsFL$2,137
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,260. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ31$3,786+200%$986 – $5,339
California CA86$2,447+94%$1,343 – $4,252
Georgia GA34$2,235+77%$1,723 – $4,282
Florida FL39$2,137+70%$1,260 – $3,096
South Dakota SD10$1,979+57%$845 – $1,984
Pennsylvania PA39$1,821+45%$938 – $3,001
Massachusetts MA19$1,786+42%$919 – $2,764
Ohio OH60$1,780+41%$1,048 – $1,964
Virginia VA25$1,570+25%$698 – $1,633
Texas TX82$1,494+19%$1,262 – $2,582
South Carolina SC17$1,486+18%$1,328 – $1,486
Kentucky KY13$1,469+17%$810 – $3,575
North Carolina NC26$1,427+13%$955 – $1,441
Illinois IL41$1,369+9%$258 – $2,057
New Mexico NM12$1,359+8%$638 – $2,268
Oregon OR29$1,150−9%$248 – $2,145
Arizona AZ16$1,110−12%$966 – $4,765
New York NY42$1,054−16%$432 – $1,894
Wisconsin WI41$1,039−18%$762 – $1,464
Michigan MI55$950−25%$182 – $1,647
Missouri MO24$871−31%$420 – $1,991
Minnesota MN42$797−37%$261 – $2,064
Washington WA31$786−38%$301 – $1,813
Nebraska NE20$738−41%$267 – $907
Colorado CO14$733−42%$285 – $1,700
Tennessee TN21$709−44%$315 – $859
Indiana IN28$697−45%$456 – $1,496
Kansas KS19$603−52%$362 – $917
Iowa IA40$598−53%$354 – $1,877
Louisiana LA32$558−56%$309 – $950
Oklahoma OK30$499−60%$169 – $783
West Virginia WV12$94−93%$94 – $1,002
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not 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 $1,260.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care881$1,385$580 – $2,561
Children’s21$1,953$429 – $2,500
Critical access233$845$309 – $1,700
Ownership
For-profit105$1,262$499 – $2,235
Government180$1,054$443 – $2,022
Non-profit850$1,262$517 – $2,292
System affiliation
Part of a system977$1,292$541 – $2,312
Independent161$938$301 – $1,937

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,164
Median cash price$1,260
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

856 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,427 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,455; most fall between $612 and $2,500.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 856 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
$261$738$1,427$2,235$3,501

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($261 vs $3,501).

Of the 920 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 856 gave a usable cash price; 33 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 31 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,138 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,234 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,138
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here61
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded35
Hospitals that filed this code1,234

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 spinal injection by catheter, no imaging (CPT 62326) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-62326-lower-back-spinal-injection-by-catheter-no-imaging