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Procedure price report · Laminectomy, excision intervertebral disc

Open nerve decompression in the lower back, one level

CPT 63047the billing code this page is about

Removal of bone, joint, and ligament from the back of the spine at one lumbar segment to widen the canal and nerve openings and relieve pressure.

Hospitals typically charge $6,196 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 698 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $7,134. Most fall between $2,313 and $16,656 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
698
States
48
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 698 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
$1,632$2,650$6,196$13,571$27,967

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,632 vs $27,967).

How the prices are spread

$1,086 – $1,545: 29 hospitals$1,086$1,545 – $2,198: 64 hospitals$2,198 – $3,126: 78 hospitals$2,198$3,126 – $4,446: 78 hospitals$4,446 – $6,324: 70 hospitals$4,446$6,324 – $8,995: 86 hospitals$8,995 – $12,794: 76 hospitals$8,995$12,794 – $18,197: 50 hospitals$18,197 – $25,883: 52 hospitals$18,197$25,883 – $36,815: 49 hospitals$25,883median $6,196price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (632 of 698 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,086$1,54529
$1,545$2,19864
$2,198$3,12678
$3,126$4,44678
$4,446$6,32470
$6,324$8,99586
$8,995$12,79476
$12,794$18,19750
$18,197$25,88352
$25,883$36,81549

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$6,196
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.84×

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 $6,196.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $4,447 across 10 hospitalsWA$4,447Idaho: median $12,530 across 15 hospitalsID$12,530Montana: median $3,417 across 10 hospitalsMT$3,417North Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $5,388 across 35 hospitalsMN$5,388Illinois: median $2,650 across 27 hospitalsIL$2,650Wisconsin: median $6,196 across 34 hospitalsWI$6,196Michigan: median $4,331 across 35 hospitalsMI$4,331New York: median $8,454 across 56 hospitalsNY$8,454Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,926 across 14 hospitalsOR$2,926Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 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 $2,650 across 26 hospitalsIA$2,650Indiana: median $9,570 across 17 hospitalsIN$9,570Ohio: median $19,974 across 33 hospitalsOH$19,974Pennsylvania: median $9,657 across 20 hospitalsPA$9,657New Jersey: median $7,907 across 33 hospitalsNJ$7,907Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $8,804 across 51 hospitalsCA$8,804Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $2,762 across 12 hospitalsNE$2,762Missouri: median $11,965 across 19 hospitalsMO$11,965Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $6,504 across 12 hospitalsWV$6,504Virginia: median $23,357 across 13 hospitalsVA$23,357Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $3,019 across 12 hospitalsKS$3,019Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $2,313 across 16 hospitalsOK$2,313Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $5,358 across 12 hospitalsMS$5,358Alabama: median $6,041 across 14 hospitalsAL$6,041Georgia: median $7,242 across 14 hospitalsGA$7,242Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $8,861 across 33 hospitalsTX$8,861Florida: median $10,037 across 12 hospitalsFL$10,037
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $6,196. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA13$23,357+277%$736 – $34,040
Ohio OH33$19,974+222%$4,396 – $45,534
Idaho ID15$12,530+102%$2,174 – $14,738
Missouri MO19$11,965+93%$1,647 – $25,779
Florida FL12$10,037+62%$4,396 – $24,036
Pennsylvania PA20$9,657+56%$5,050 – $14,644
Indiana IN17$9,570+54%$2,136 – $12,992
Texas TX33$8,861+43%$6,210 – $13,348
California CA51$8,804+42%$3,199 – $21,969
New York NY56$8,454+36%$3,377 – $36,815
New Jersey NJ33$7,907+28%$5,110 – $9,671
Georgia GA14$7,242+17%$2,545 – $30,000
West Virginia WV12$6,504+5%$3,282 – $14,640
Wisconsin WI34$6,1960%$5,278 – $12,771
Alabama AL14$6,041−2%$3,059 – $19,361
Minnesota MN35$5,388−13%$1,491 – $10,597
Mississippi MS12$5,358−14%$4,849 – $14,368
Washington WA10$4,447−28%$904 – $5,391
Michigan MI35$4,331−30%$1,884 – $9,978
Montana MT10$3,417−45%$681 – $10,363
Kansas KS12$3,019−51%$1,581 – $9,823
Oregon OR14$2,926−53%$904 – $3,595
Nebraska NE12$2,762−55%$1,632 – $5,788
Iowa IA26$2,650−57%$2,147 – $3,195
Illinois IL27$2,650−57%$2,050 – $47,062
Oklahoma OK16$2,313−63%$2,313 – $11,958
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $6,196.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care562$7,807$2,545 – $21,053
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access124$3,595$1,911 – $9,032
Ownership
For-profit91$10,472$3,710 – $24,036
Government91$3,136$1,911 – $13,552
Non-profit514$6,196$2,313 – $15,806
System affiliation
Part of a system544$7,230$2,545 – $21,200
Independent154$3,586$1,967 – $10,637

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$7,924
Median cash price$6,196
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

323 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,926 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,841; most fall between $1,581 and $8,952.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 323 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
$904$1,843$2,926$7,230$14,738

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($904 vs $14,738).

Of the 372 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 323 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 23 a list price only.

How complete is this

698 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 778 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted698
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here54
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded21
Hospitals that filed this code778

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 Laminectomy, excision intervertebral disc family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Lam Facetectomy & Foramotomy 1 Vrt Sgm 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, “Open nerve decompression in the lower back, one level (CPT 63047) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-63047-open-nerve-decompression-in-the-lower-back-one-level