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Lumbar spine surgery to remove growth inside cord lining

CPT 63272the billing code this page is about

Open surgery on the lower back that removes part of the bony arch and opens the covering of the spinal cord or nerves to take out a growth inside it.

Hospitals typically charge $4,059 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 184 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,267. Most fall between $2,673 and $6,950 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
184
States
40
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 184 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
$1,490$2,884$4,059$6,021$9,104

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,490 vs $9,104).

How the prices are spread

$663 – $899: 2 hospitals$663$899 – $1,219: 4 hospitals$1,219 – $1,652: 5 hospitals$1,219$1,652 – $2,239: 11 hospitals$2,239 – $3,036: 19 hospitals$2,239$3,036 – $4,115: 42 hospitals$4,115 – $5,578: 36 hospitals$4,115$5,578 – $7,561: 31 hospitals$7,561 – $10,249: 9 hospitals$7,561$10,249 – $13,893: 7 hospitals$10,249median $4,059price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (166 of 184 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$663$8992
$899$1,2194
$1,219$1,6525
$1,652$2,23911
$2,239$3,03619
$3,036$4,11542
$4,115$5,57836
$5,578$7,56131
$7,561$10,2499
$10,249$13,8937

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $4,059.

Alaska: 2 hospitals 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 4 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $3,287 across 10 hospitalsIL$3,287Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $2,830 across 12 hospitalsMI$2,830New York: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $3,502 across 10 hospitalsOR$3,502Nevada: 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 $4,479 across 15 hospitalsIA$4,479Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: median $6,950 across 10 hospitalsOH$6,950Pennsylvania: median $711 across 15 hospitalsPA$711New Jersey: median $5,339 across 13 hospitalsNJ$5,339Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 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: 2 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 $3,084 across 10 hospitalsOK$3,084Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,059. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH10$6,950+71%$3,385 – $7,150
New Jersey NJ13$5,339+32%$4,350 – $6,311
Iowa IA15$4,479+10%$4,479 – $4,479
Oregon OR10$3,502−14%$3,502 – $6,021
Illinois IL10$3,287−19%$1,490 – $7,550
Oklahoma OK10$3,084−24%$3,084 – $3,084
Michigan MI12$2,830−30%$2,830 – $5,394
Pennsylvania PA15$711−82%$533 – $4,288
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not 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
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not 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 $4,059.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care149$3,986$2,599 – $7,078
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access24$4,479$1,733 – $6,854
Ownership
For-profit20$5,394$1,490 – $11,213
Government24$5,208$3,241 – $9,104
Non-profit139$3,847$2,579 – $6,021
System affiliation
Part of a system141$3,986$2,673 – $6,680
Independent43$4,253$2,695 – $8,600

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,568
Median cash price$4,059
Cash as a share of list, median hospital70%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 30%. 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

118 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,502 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,717; most fall between $2,344 and $5,394.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 118 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
$1,490$2,579$3,502$4,900$7,095

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,490 vs $7,095).

Of the 136 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 118 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

184 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 225 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted184
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here27
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code225

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 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 Other OR therapeutic nervous system procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Lam Exc Ispi Les Oth/Thn Neo Idrl 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, “Lumbar spine surgery to remove growth inside cord lining (CPT 63272) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-63272-lumbar-spine-surgery-to-remove-growth-inside-cord-lining