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Procedure price report · Laminectomy, excision intervertebral disc

Front-of-neck disc removal, each extra disc level

CPT 63076the billing code this page is about

Removal of a damaged disc in the neck through an incision at the front, with decompression of the spinal cord or nerve roots; this code covers each additional disc level beyond the first.

Hospitals typically charge $1,019 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 263 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,385. Most fall between $396 and $5,110 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
263
States
42
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 263 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
$246$445$1,019$3,821$6,839

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 28× what the cheapest tenth charges ($246 vs $6,839).

How the prices are spread

$173 – $281: 19 hospitals$173$281 – $457: 42 hospitals$457 – $744: 43 hospitals$457$744 – $1,209: 45 hospitals$1,209 – $1,967: 14 hospitals$1,209$1,967 – $3,198: 16 hospitals$3,198 – $5,199: 19 hospitals$3,198$5,199 – $8,454: 27 hospitals$8,454 – $13,746: 2 hospitals$8,454$13,746 – $22,351: 10 hospitals$13,746median $1,019price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (237 of 263 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$173$28119
$281$45742
$457$74443
$744$1,20945
$1,209$1,96714
$1,967$3,19816
$3,198$5,19919
$5,199$8,45427
$8,454$13,7462
$13,746$22,35110

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,019.

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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $477 across 14 hospitalsIL$477Wisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $1,027 across 23 hospitalsMI$1,027New York: median $663 across 13 hospitalsNY$663Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $557 across 11 hospitalsOR$557Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 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 $591 across 14 hospitalsIA$591Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,050 across 10 hospitalsOH$1,050Pennsylvania: median $164 across 16 hospitalsPA$164New Jersey: median $5,855 across 20 hospitalsNJ$5,855Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $6,087 across 26 hospitalsCA$6,087Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 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: 3 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $396 across 12 hospitalsOK$396Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 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 $2,772 across 22 hospitalsTX$2,772Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,019. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA26$6,087+497%$3,444 – $6,087
New Jersey NJ20$5,855+475%$4,627 – $24,754
Texas TX22$2,772+172%$2,653 – $3,821
Ohio OH10$1,050+3%$622 – $1,110
Michigan MI23$1,027+1%$337 – $1,589
New York NY13$663−35%$245 – $1,025
Iowa IA14$591−42%$591 – $591
Oregon OR11$557−45%$445 – $778
Illinois IL14$477−53%$196 – $1,998
Oklahoma OK12$396−61%$396 – $396
Pennsylvania PA16$164−84%$150 – $2,487
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not 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 $1,019.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care221$1,025$396 – $5,419
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access34$778$255 – $2,772
Ownership
For-profit28$1,676$396 – $14,629
Government32$529$403 – $861
Non-profit202$1,027$396 – $5,741
System affiliation
Part of a system214$1,027$394 – $6,087
Independent49$640$427 – $1,349

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,164
Median cash price$1,019
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

164 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $755 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,235; most fall between $396 and $3,821.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 164 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
$293$445$755$2,772$6,087

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($293 vs $6,087).

Of the 183 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 164 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

263 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 300 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted263
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
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 — excluded17
Hospitals that filed this code300

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 Discectomy Ant Dcmprn Cord Cervical Ea Ntrspc.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Front-of-neck disc removal, each extra disc level (CPT 63076) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-63076-front-of-neck-disc-removal-each-extra-disc-level