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Procedure price report · Laminectomy, excision intervertebral disc

Each additional segment of spinal nerve decompression

CPT 63048the billing code this page is about

Add-on charge for each extra vertebral segment decompressed in the neck, mid-back, or lower back, billed in addition to the first segment.

Hospitals typically charge $1,430 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 603 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,626. Most fall between $439 and $14,503 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
603
States
48
Filings dated
Jun 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 603 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
$288$500$1,430$11,954$29,448

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 102× what the cheapest tenth charges ($288 vs $29,448).

How the prices are spread

$139 – $243: 18 hospitals$139$243 – $424: 69 hospitals$424 – $741: 98 hospitals$424$741 – $1,295: 70 hospitals$1,295 – $2,262: 45 hospitals$1,295$2,262 – $3,952: 37 hospitals$3,952 – $6,904: 50 hospitals$3,952$6,904 – $12,062: 36 hospitals$12,062 – $21,073: 63 hospitals$12,062$21,073 – $36,815: 61 hospitals$21,073median $1,430price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (547 of 603 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$139$24318
$243$42469
$424$74198
$741$1,29570
$1,295$2,26245
$2,262$3,95237
$3,952$6,90450
$6,904$12,06236
$12,062$21,07363
$21,073$36,81561

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,430.

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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $14,738 across 13 hospitalsID$14,738Montana: 8 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 $1,280 across 30 hospitalsMN$1,280Illinois: median $508 across 26 hospitalsIL$508Wisconsin: median $1,201 across 32 hospitalsWI$1,201Michigan: median $955 across 35 hospitalsMI$955New York: median $3,842 across 39 hospitalsNY$3,842Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $481 across 14 hospitalsOR$481Nevada: 3 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 $508 across 26 hospitalsIA$508Indiana: median $6,491 across 16 hospitalsIN$6,491Ohio: median $17,226 across 28 hospitalsOH$17,226Pennsylvania: median $307 across 21 hospitalsPA$307New Jersey: median $5,855 across 22 hospitalsNJ$5,855Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,402 across 50 hospitalsCA$4,402Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $580 across 11 hospitalsNE$580Missouri: median $6,104 across 18 hospitalsMO$6,104Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $3,278 across 10 hospitalsWV$3,278Virginia: median $24,691 across 12 hospitalsVA$24,691Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $439 across 14 hospitalsOK$439Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $5,216 across 10 hospitalsAL$5,216Georgia: median $1,804 across 12 hospitalsGA$1,804Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,796 across 28 hospitalsTX$5,796Florida: median $15,445 across 11 hospitalsFL$15,445
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,430. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA12$24,691+1627%$137 – $34,222
Ohio OH28$17,226+1105%$959 – $44,543
Florida FL11$15,445+980%$993 – $26,185
Idaho ID13$14,738+931%$6,265 – $14,738
Indiana IN16$6,491+354%$653 – $12,902
Missouri MO18$6,104+327%$341 – $26,228
New Jersey NJ22$5,855+309%$4,627 – $9,761
Texas TX28$5,796+305%$3,832 – $8,754
Alabama AL10$5,216+265%$295 – $19,269
California CA50$4,402+208%$937 – $13,518
New York NY39$3,842+169%$501 – $36,815
West Virginia WV10$3,278+129%$232 – $8,435
Georgia GA12$1,804+26%$479 – $6,892
Minnesota MN30$1,280−10%$354 – $3,546
Wisconsin WI32$1,201−16%$979 – $3,533
Michigan MI35$955−33%$317 – $1,902
Nebraska NE11$580−59%$306 – $1,712
Iowa IA26$508−64%$448 – $1,110
Illinois IL26$508−64%$370 – $53,288
Oregon OR14$481−66%$72 – $671
Oklahoma OK14$439−69%$439 – $7,477
Pennsylvania PA21$307−79%$78 – $1,883
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not 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
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not 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 $1,430.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care482$2,719$442 – $18,322
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access109$676$370 – $3,107
Ownership
For-profit64$7,626$738 – $24,798
Government78$591$375 – $6,892
Non-profit459$1,382$439 – $13,518
System affiliation
Part of a system472$1,902$448 – $16,648
Independent131$851$392 – $6,265

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,865
Median cash price$1,430
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

303 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $586 and the average of the middle 60% is $786; most fall between $288 and $1,937.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 303 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
$85$326$586$1,430$11,906

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 141× what the cheapest tenth charges ($85 vs $11,906).

Of the 347 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 303 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 26 a list price only.

How complete is this

603 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 699 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted603
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here50
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded40
Hospitals that filed this code699

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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&Foramot 1 Vrt Sgm Ea Addl Sgm.

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, “Each additional segment of spinal nerve decompression (CPT 63048) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-63048-each-additional-segment-of-spinal-nerve-decompression