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Procedure price report · Laminectomy, excision intervertebral disc

Neck laminectomy to relieve spinal cord pressure, 1-2 levels

CPT 63001the billing code this page is about

Open removal of bone from the back of the neck vertebrae to expose and relieve pressure on the spinal cord or nerves at one or two vertebral segments.

Hospitals typically charge $5,050 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 386 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,626. Most fall between $2,035 and $10,467 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
386
States
46
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 386 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
$1,243$2,383$5,050$9,072$16,559

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,243 vs $16,559).

How the prices are spread

$727 – $1,008: 13 hospitals$727$1,008 – $1,397: 10 hospitals$1,397 – $1,936: 16 hospitals$1,397$1,936 – $2,682: 58 hospitals$2,682 – $3,717: 33 hospitals$2,682$3,717 – $5,151: 46 hospitals$5,151 – $7,138: 42 hospitals$5,151$7,138 – $9,891: 55 hospitals$9,891 – $13,707: 41 hospitals$9,891$13,707 – $18,995: 34 hospitals$13,707median $5,050price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (348 of 386 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$727$1,00813
$1,008$1,39710
$1,397$1,93616
$1,936$2,68258
$2,682$3,71733
$3,717$5,15146
$5,151$7,13842
$7,138$9,89155
$9,891$13,70741
$13,707$18,99534

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$5,050
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.68×

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 $5,050.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $6,386 across 10 hospitalsID$6,386Montana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $6,011 across 20 hospitalsMN$6,011Illinois: median $2,438 across 16 hospitalsIL$2,438Wisconsin: median $5,352 across 28 hospitalsWI$5,352Michigan: median $2,383 across 27 hospitalsMI$2,383New York: median $8,454 across 24 hospitalsNY$8,454Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,295 across 10 hospitalsOR$2,295Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,934 across 17 hospitalsIA$2,934Indiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $4,579 across 13 hospitalsOH$4,579Pennsylvania: median $805 across 20 hospitalsPA$805New Jersey: median $6,839 across 24 hospitalsNJ$6,839Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $16,559 across 41 hospitalsCA$16,559Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $2,027 across 12 hospitalsOK$2,027Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $10,027 across 25 hospitalsTX$10,027Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,050. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA41$16,559+228%$8,590 – $16,559
Texas TX25$10,027+99%$4,150 – $10,467
New York NY24$8,454+67%$3,675 – $8,613
New Jersey NJ24$6,839+35%$4,881 – $8,413
Idaho ID10$6,386+26%$2,394 – $14,738
Minnesota MN20$6,011+19%$1,569 – $7,895
Wisconsin WI28$5,352+6%$5,039 – $11,341
Ohio OH13$4,579−9%$3,061 – $5,669
Iowa IA17$2,934−42%$2,934 – $2,934
Illinois IL16$2,438−52%$973 – $5,822
Michigan MI27$2,383−53%$2,383 – $5,352
Oregon OR10$2,295−55%$2,295 – $3,975
Oklahoma OK12$2,027−60%$2,027 – $2,027
Pennsylvania PA20$805−84%$330 – $11,093
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $5,050.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care313$5,334$2,184 – $10,467
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access62$5,039$1,960 – $10,467
Ownership
For-profit40$7,090$2,027 – $16,177
Government43$3,837$2,123 – $8,454
Non-profit302$5,039$2,027 – $10,027
System affiliation
Part of a system309$5,352$2,027 – $10,467
Independent77$3,837$2,047 – $10,228

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,386
Median cash price$5,050
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

219 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,706 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,607; most fall between $1,960 and $10,027.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 219 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
$849$2,027$3,706$8,590$16,559

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($849 vs $16,559).

Of the 243 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 219 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

386 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 418 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted386
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here26
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code418

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Laminectomy, excision intervertebral disc family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Lam W/O Facetec Foramot/Dsc 1/2 Vrt Sgm Crv.

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 laminectomy to relieve spinal cord pressure, 1-2 levels (CPT 63001) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-63001-neck-laminectomy-to-relieve-spinal-cord-pressure-1-2-levels