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Procedure price report · Laminectomy, excision intervertebral disc

Lower back laminectomy to relieve nerve pressure, 3+ levels

CPT 63017the billing code this page is about

Open removal of bone from the back of the lumbar vertebrae to relieve pressure on the spinal cord or nerve roots across more than two vertebral segments.

Hospitals typically charge $5,703 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 345 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,752. Most fall between $2,221 and $11,093 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
345
States
44
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 345 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
$1,593$2,801$5,703$9,302$17,382

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,593 vs $17,382).

How the prices are spread

$839 – $1,136: 11 hospitals$839$1,136 – $1,538: 7 hospitals$1,538 – $2,083: 22 hospitals$1,538$2,083 – $2,820: 32 hospitals$2,820 – $3,819: 38 hospitals$2,820$3,819 – $5,171: 41 hospitals$5,171 – $7,001: 39 hospitals$5,171$7,001 – $9,480: 60 hospitals$9,480 – $12,837: 30 hospitals$9,480$12,837 – $17,382: 34 hospitals$12,837median $5,703price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (314 of 345 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$839$1,13611
$1,136$1,5387
$1,538$2,08322
$2,083$2,82032
$2,820$3,81938
$3,819$5,17141
$5,171$7,00139
$7,001$9,48060
$9,480$12,83730
$12,837$17,38234

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$5,703
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.77×

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 $5,703.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 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 $7,928 across 16 hospitalsMN$7,928Illinois: median $2,119 across 14 hospitalsIL$2,119Wisconsin: median $5,946 across 27 hospitalsWI$5,946Michigan: median $4,368 across 26 hospitalsMI$4,368New York: median $8,454 across 28 hospitalsNY$8,454Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 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 $2,989 across 14 hospitalsIA$2,989Indiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $4,506 across 11 hospitalsOH$4,506Pennsylvania: median $828 across 19 hospitalsPA$828New Jersey: median $6,839 across 24 hospitalsNJ$6,839Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $17,382 across 27 hospitalsCA$17,382Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $2,083 across 13 hospitalsOK$2,083Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $8,389 across 23 hospitalsTX$8,389Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,703. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA27$17,382+205%$3,557 – $17,382
New York NY28$8,454+48%$3,326 – $8,613
Texas TX23$8,389+47%$4,189 – $11,533
Minnesota MN16$7,928+39%$2,642 – $9,302
New Jersey NJ24$6,839+20%$4,881 – $8,413
Wisconsin WI27$5,946+4%$5,703 – $11,252
Ohio OH11$4,506−21%$3,119 – $4,701
Michigan MI26$4,368−23%$4,368 – $5,703
Iowa IA14$2,989−48%$2,989 – $2,989
Illinois IL14$2,119−63%$989 – $6,030
Oklahoma OK13$2,083−63%$2,083 – $12,086
Pennsylvania PA19$828−85%$422 – $12,077
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $5,703.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care282$5,427$2,227 – $11,466
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access55$5,703$2,314 – $9,302
Ownership
For-profit35$7,500$1,676 – $14,738
Government42$6,564$2,460 – $13,020
Non-profit267$5,339$2,119 – $9,978
System affiliation
Part of a system285$5,703$2,314 – $11,252
Independent60$3,784$2,071 – $8,594

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,784
Median cash price$5,703
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

193 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,960 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,880; most fall between $1,862 and $11,533.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 193 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
$989$2,083$3,960$8,389$17,382

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($989 vs $17,382).

Of the 215 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 193 gave a usable cash price; 16 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

345 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 373 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted345
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here23
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code373

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 Laminectomy W/O Ffd > 2 Vert Seg Lumbar.

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 laminectomy to relieve nerve pressure, 3+ levels (CPT 63017) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-63017-lower-back-laminectomy-to-relieve-nerve-pressure-3-levels