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Procedure price report · Laminectomy, excision intervertebral disc

Each extra mid-back level in rib-and-spine decompression

CPT 63066the billing code this page is about

Add-on charge for one additional thoracic segment decompressed through the rib-and-spine approach during the same surgery; billed once per extra segment.

Hospitals typically charge $546 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 172 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,945. Most fall between $319 and $6,064 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
172
States
35
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 172 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
$206$335$546$5,110$7,605

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 37× what the cheapest tenth charges ($206 vs $7,605).

How the prices are spread

$150 – $222: 13 hospitals$150$222 – $329: 15 hospitals$329 – $487: 43 hospitals$329$487 – $721: 15 hospitals$721 – $1,068: 10 hospitals$721$1,068 – $1,582: 4 hospitals$1,582 – $2,342: 7 hospitals$1,582$2,342 – $3,468: 4 hospitals$3,468 – $5,136: 10 hospitals$3,468$5,136 – $7,605: 42 hospitals$5,136median $546price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (163 of 172 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$150$22213
$222$32915
$329$48743
$487$72115
$721$1,06810
$1,068$1,5824
$1,582$2,3427
$2,342$3,4684
$3,468$5,13610
$5,136$7,60542

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $546.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $369 across 11 hospitalsIL$369Wisconsin: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $299 across 10 hospitalsMI$299New York: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $483 across 14 hospitalsIA$483Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $150 across 15 hospitalsPA$150New Jersey: median $5,110 across 12 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $7,605 across 22 hospitalsCA$7,605Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $335 across 10 hospitalsOK$335Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $6,064 across 18 hospitalsTX$6,064Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $546. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA22$7,605+1293%$7,605 – $7,605
Texas TX18$6,064+1011%$6,064 – $6,064
New Jersey NJ12$5,110+836%$4,350 – $5,855
Iowa IA14$483−12%$483 – $483
Illinois IL11$369−32%$165 – $483
Oklahoma OK10$335−39%$335 – $335
Michigan MI10$299−45%$299 – $1,767
Pennsylvania PA15$150−73%$127 – $2,976
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $546.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care153$645$334 – $6,064
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access12fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit17fewer than 20 hospitals
Government16fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit138$611$319 – $6,064
System affiliation
Part of a system136$781$299 – $6,064
Independent36$439$338 – $762

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$730
Median cash price$546
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

124 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $515 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,832; most fall between $335 and $6,064.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 124 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
$253$335$515$6,064$7,605

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 30× what the cheapest tenth charges ($253 vs $7,605).

Of the 132 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 124 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 1 a list price only.

How complete is this

172 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 196 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted172
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code196

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 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 Costovertebral Dcmprn Spine Cord Thoracic Ea Seg.

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 extra mid-back level in rib-and-spine decompression (CPT 63066) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-63066-each-extra-mid-back-level-in-rib-and-spine-decompression