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

Lower back spinal injection by catheter with imaging

CPT 62327the 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, guided by X-ray or CT.

Hospitals typically charge $1,656 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,067 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,608. Most fall between $769 and $2,748 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,067
States
49
Filings dated
Mar 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 1,067 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
$448$904$1,656$2,325$4,099

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($448 vs $4,099).

How the prices are spread

$251 – $347: 37 hospitals$251$347 – $479: 26 hospitals$479 – $662: 60 hospitals$479$662 – $915: 103 hospitals$915 – $1,264: 152 hospitals$915$1,264 – $1,747: 160 hospitals$1,747 – $2,414: 227 hospitals$1,747$2,414 – $3,335: 67 hospitals$3,335 – $4,609: 91 hospitals$3,335$4,609 – $6,368: 39 hospitals$4,609median $1,656price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (962 of 1,067 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$251$34737
$347$47926
$479$66260
$662$915103
$915$1,264152
$1,264$1,747160
$1,747$2,414227
$2,414$3,33567
$3,335$4,60991
$4,609$6,36839

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$904
Median cash price$1,656
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.83×

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 $1,656.

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: 3 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 $1,096 across 28 hospitalsWA$1,096Idaho: median $2,112 across 12 hospitalsID$2,112Montana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,927 across 25 hospitalsMN$1,927Illinois: median $1,350 across 37 hospitalsIL$1,350Wisconsin: median $1,695 across 60 hospitalsWI$1,695Michigan: median $900 across 33 hospitalsMI$900New York: median $1,054 across 38 hospitalsNY$1,054Massachusetts: median $1,583 across 18 hospitalsMA$1,583Oregon: median $945 across 17 hospitalsOR$945Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,240 across 28 hospitalsIA$1,240Indiana: median $756 across 26 hospitalsIN$756Ohio: median $1,970 across 96 hospitalsOH$1,970Pennsylvania: median $1,917 across 40 hospitalsPA$1,917New Jersey: median $1,168 across 31 hospitalsNJ$1,168Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,814 across 83 hospitalsCA$3,814Utah: median $1,819 across 16 hospitalsUT$1,819Colorado: median $1,411 across 25 hospitalsCO$1,411Nebraska: median $738 across 18 hospitalsNE$738Missouri: median $1,250 across 28 hospitalsMO$1,250Kentucky: median $1,692 across 12 hospitalsKY$1,692West Virginia: median $170 across 13 hospitalsWV$170Virginia: median $1,574 across 36 hospitalsVA$1,574Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,000 across 16 hospitalsKS$1,000Arkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $456 across 19 hospitalsTN$456North Carolina: median $1,558 across 13 hospitalsNC$1,558South Carolina: median $1,882 across 25 hospitalsSC$1,882Oklahoma: median $320 across 19 hospitalsOK$320Louisiana: median $896 across 17 hospitalsLA$896Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,325 across 42 hospitalsGA$2,325Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,106 across 68 hospitalsTX$2,106Florida: median $2,564 across 41 hospitalsFL$2,564
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,656. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA83$3,814+130%$1,711 – $7,262
Florida FL41$2,564+55%$1,260 – $4,099
Georgia GA42$2,325+40%$2,245 – $6,579
Idaho ID12$2,112+28%$1,324 – $2,430
Texas TX68$2,106+27%$1,252 – $2,342
Ohio OH96$1,970+19%$1,704 – $3,993
Minnesota MN25$1,927+16%$1,022 – $2,748
Pennsylvania PA40$1,917+16%$904 – $2,770
South Carolina SC25$1,882+14%$1,328 – $2,323
Utah UT16$1,819+10%$1,202 – $1,819
Wisconsin WI60$1,695+2%$834 – $2,025
Kentucky KY12$1,692+2%$1,137 – $3,575
Massachusetts MA18$1,583−4%$715 – $1,914
Virginia VA36$1,574−5%$888 – $1,681
North Carolina NC13$1,558−6%$858 – $1,937
Colorado CO25$1,411−15%$733 – $3,918
Illinois IL37$1,350−18%$374 – $3,652
Missouri MO28$1,250−25%$795 – $2,010
Iowa IA28$1,240−25%$611 – $1,902
New Jersey NJ31$1,168−29%$985 – $5,255
Washington WA28$1,096−34%$805 – $2,026
New York NY38$1,054−36%$904 – $2,160
Kansas KS16$1,000−40%$603 – $1,100
Oregon OR17$945−43%$481 – $1,324
Michigan MI33$900−46%$294 – $1,430
Louisiana LA17$896−46%$583 – $1,422
Indiana IN26$756−54%$548 – $1,185
Nebraska NE18$738−55%$377 – $1,053
Tennessee TN19$456−72%$244 – $908
Oklahoma OK19$320−81%$320 – $764
West Virginia WV13$170−90%$106 – $1,130
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not 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 $1,656.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care880$1,695$833 – $2,978
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access163$1,079$409 – $1,965
Ownership
For-profit100$1,970$839 – $3,356
Government135$1,118$560 – $2,342
Non-profit826$1,684$802 – $2,713
System affiliation
Part of a system928$1,692$807 – $2,815
Independent139$1,168$576 – $2,134

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,703
Median cash price$1,656
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

829 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,761 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,777; most fall between $859 and $2,978.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 829 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
$492$1,022$1,761$2,605$4,099

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($492 vs $4,099).

Of the 890 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 829 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 36 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,067 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (27%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,162 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,067
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here55
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded38
Hospitals that filed this code1,162

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/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 with imaging (CPT 62327) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-62327-lower-back-spinal-injection-by-catheter-with-imaging