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Procedure price report · Insertion of catheter or spinal stimulator and injection into spinal canal

Placement of spinal stimulator wires through the skin

CPT 63650the billing code this page is about

Thin electrode leads are threaded through a needle into the space just outside the spinal cord covering to deliver electrical stimulation; covers the electrode placement only.

Hospitals typically charge $6,924 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,472 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $6,914. Most fall between $2,914 and $12,619 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,472
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 1,472 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
$1,585$3,562$6,924$10,693$17,811

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,585 vs $17,811).

How the prices are spread

$914 – $1,274: 40 hospitals$914$1,274 – $1,778: 52 hospitals$1,778 – $2,480: 68 hospitals$1,778$2,480 – $3,459: 125 hospitals$3,459 – $4,826: 162 hospitals$3,459$4,826 – $6,732: 201 hospitals$6,732 – $9,390: 319 hospitals$6,732$9,390 – $13,099: 169 hospitals$13,099 – $18,272: 129 hospitals$13,099$18,272 – $25,489: 63 hospitals$18,272median $6,924price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,328 of 1,472 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$914$1,27440
$1,274$1,77852
$1,778$2,48068
$2,480$3,459125
$3,459$4,826162
$4,826$6,732201
$6,732$9,390319
$9,390$13,099169
$13,099$18,272129
$18,272$25,48963

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,511
Median cash price$6,924
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.06×

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 $6,924.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 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 $4,793 across 31 hospitalsWA$4,793Idaho: median $8,544 across 16 hospitalsID$8,544Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $6,267 across 44 hospitalsMN$6,267Illinois: median $6,166 across 64 hospitalsIL$6,166Wisconsin: median $5,500 across 54 hospitalsWI$5,500Michigan: median $8,763 across 58 hospitalsMI$8,763New York: median $7,766 across 64 hospitalsNY$7,766Massachusetts: median $8,167 across 29 hospitalsMA$8,167Oregon: median $3,593 across 17 hospitalsOR$3,593Nevada: median $6,932 across 10 hospitalsNV$6,932Wyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $11,555 across 10 hospitalsSD$11,555Iowa: median $4,646 across 29 hospitalsIA$4,646Indiana: median $3,808 across 37 hospitalsIN$3,808Ohio: median $8,028 across 112 hospitalsOH$8,028Pennsylvania: median $5,749 across 62 hospitalsPA$5,749New Jersey: median $7,271 across 42 hospitalsNJ$7,271Connecticut: median $5,381 across 12 hospitalsCT$5,381Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $8,254 across 89 hospitalsCA$8,254Utah: median $12,620 across 28 hospitalsUT$12,620Colorado: median $8,573 across 30 hospitalsCO$8,573Nebraska: median $4,487 across 24 hospitalsNE$4,487Missouri: median $3,989 across 48 hospitalsMO$3,989Kentucky: median $6,611 across 22 hospitalsKY$6,611West Virginia: median $3,018 across 24 hospitalsWV$3,018Virginia: median $6,933 across 31 hospitalsVA$6,933Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $3,813 across 20 hospitalsAZ$3,813New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $4,118 across 27 hospitalsKS$4,118Arkansas: median $2,818 across 12 hospitalsAR$2,818Tennessee: median $3,137 across 18 hospitalsTN$3,137North Carolina: median $7,192 across 44 hospitalsNC$7,192South Carolina: median $18,307 across 29 hospitalsSC$18,307Oklahoma: median $4,562 across 30 hospitalsOK$4,562Louisiana: median $4,623 across 25 hospitalsLA$4,623Mississippi: median $3,998 across 26 hospitalsMS$3,998Alabama: median $6,563 across 13 hospitalsAL$6,563Georgia: median $6,460 across 50 hospitalsGA$6,460Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $7,673 across 94 hospitalsTX$7,673Florida: median $10,650 across 33 hospitalsFL$10,650
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $6,924. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC29$18,307+164%$8,408 – $31,579
Utah UT28$12,620+82%$9,798 – $14,847
South Dakota SD10$11,555+67%$6,823 – $16,950
Florida FL33$10,650+54%$6,516 – $19,744
Michigan MI58$8,763+27%$1,339 – $17,911
Colorado CO30$8,573+24%$2,673 – $10,618
Idaho ID16$8,544+23%$3,323 – $8,811
California CA89$8,254+19%$5,590 – $15,461
Massachusetts MA29$8,167+18%$4,190 – $13,807
Ohio OH112$8,028+16%$4,628 – $16,516
New York NY64$7,766+12%$2,609 – $41,350
Texas TX94$7,673+11%$6,108 – $12,240
New Jersey NJ42$7,271+5%$5,110 – $9,126
North Carolina NC44$7,192+4%$2,382 – $8,157
Virginia VA31$6,9330%$3,988 – $7,636
Nevada NV10$6,9320%$1,959 – $8,953
Kentucky KY22$6,611−5%$2,433 – $12,181
Alabama AL13$6,563−5%$5,847 – $24,181
Georgia GA50$6,460−7%$2,590 – $9,060
Minnesota MN44$6,267−9%$3,276 – $7,972
Illinois IL64$6,166−11%$3,028 – $14,176
Pennsylvania PA62$5,749−17%$3,381 – $12,737
Wisconsin WI54$5,500−21%$2,640 – $8,125
Connecticut CT12$5,381−22%$3,284 – $12,176
Washington WA31$4,793−31%$3,172 – $12,850
Iowa IA29$4,646−33%$2,155 – $12,285
Louisiana LA25$4,623−33%$2,332 – $6,200
Oklahoma OK30$4,562−34%$3,587 – $7,782
Nebraska NE24$4,487−35%$1,591 – $9,224
Kansas KS27$4,118−41%$1,526 – $6,004
Mississippi MS26$3,998−42%$2,318 – $4,792
Missouri MO48$3,989−42%$2,081 – $6,352
Arizona AZ20$3,813−45%$2,120 – $17,274
Indiana IN37$3,808−45%$1,759 – $8,471
Oregon OR17$3,593−48%$759 – $7,761
Tennessee TN18$3,137−55%$1,540 – $8,707
West Virginia WV24$3,018−56%$436 – $9,599
Arkansas AR12$2,818−59%$2,068 – $3,643
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $6,924.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,200$7,271$3,363 – $12,945
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access256$4,434$1,533 – $8,911
Ownership
For-profit158$7,673$3,781 – $17,217
Government216$5,723$2,037 – $8,809
Non-profit1,091$6,933$3,027 – $12,737
System affiliation
Part of a system1,239$7,172$3,150 – $12,620
Independent233$5,665$1,184 – $10,952

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$11,571
Median cash price$6,924
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

1,028 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $7,355 and the average of the middle 60% is $7,427; most fall between $3,314 and $12,620.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,028 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
$1,899$3,987$7,355$11,342$16,516

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,899 vs $16,516).

Of the 1,098 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,028 gave a usable cash price; 34 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 36 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,472 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (37%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,580 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,472
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here62
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded7
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded39
Hospitals that filed this code1,580

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 Insertion of catheter or spinal stimulator and injection into spinal canal family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Prq Impltj Nstim Electrode Array Epidural.

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, “Placement of spinal stimulator wires through the skin (CPT 63650) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-63650-placement-of-spinal-stimulator-wires-through-the-skin