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Procedure price report · Laminectomy, excision intervertebral disc

Open placement of spinal stimulator paddle electrode

CPT 63655the billing code this page is about

Bone is removed from the back of the spine so a flat plate or paddle electrode can be placed against the covering of the spinal cord for stimulation.

Hospitals typically charge $5,741 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 531 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $10,344. Most fall between $1,756 and $29,348 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
531
States
46
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 531 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
$1,196$1,986$5,741$25,280$53,132

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 44× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,196 vs $53,132).

How the prices are spread

$916 – $1,429: 58 hospitals$916$1,429 – $2,229: 59 hospitals$2,229 – $3,475: 62 hospitals$2,229$3,475 – $5,420: 54 hospitals$5,420 – $8,452: 32 hospitals$5,420$8,452 – $13,180: 23 hospitals$13,180 – $20,554: 56 hospitals$13,180$20,554 – $32,052: 57 hospitals$32,052 – $49,984: 43 hospitals$32,052$49,984 – $77,948: 35 hospitals$49,984median $5,741price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (479 of 531 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$916$1,42958
$1,429$2,22959
$2,229$3,47562
$3,475$5,42054
$5,420$8,45232
$8,452$13,18023
$13,180$20,55456
$20,554$32,05257
$32,052$49,98443
$49,984$77,94835

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$19,820
Median cash price$5,741
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.29×

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 $5,741.

Alaska: 2 hospitals 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $10,592 across 10 hospitalsID$10,592Montana: 5 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 $7,201 across 16 hospitalsMN$7,201Illinois: median $1,986 across 18 hospitalsIL$1,986Wisconsin: median $4,070 across 24 hospitalsWI$4,070Michigan: median $2,484 across 33 hospitalsMI$2,484New York: median $19,820 across 35 hospitalsNY$19,820Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,726 across 11 hospitalsOR$2,726Nevada: 4 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 $1,986 across 24 hospitalsIA$1,986Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $32,964 across 27 hospitalsOH$32,964Pennsylvania: median $5,694 across 22 hospitalsPA$5,694New Jersey: median $23,436 across 32 hospitalsNJ$23,436Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $18,334 across 31 hospitalsCA$18,334Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,915 across 10 hospitalsNE$1,915Missouri: median $4,495 across 13 hospitalsMO$4,495Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $50,018 across 11 hospitalsVA$50,018Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,381 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,381Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $13,654 across 16 hospitalsGA$13,654Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $19,287 across 35 hospitalsTX$19,287Florida: median $40,137 across 12 hospitalsFL$40,137
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,741. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA11$50,018+771%$560 – $142,564
Florida FL12$40,137+599%$3,123 – $50,299
Ohio OH27$32,964+474%$3,123 – $94,299
New Jersey NJ32$23,436+308%$4,881 – $35,359
New York NY35$19,820+245%$2,460 – $25,376
Texas TX35$19,287+236%$7,828 – $43,023
California CA31$18,334+219%$2,387 – $18,334
Georgia GA16$13,654+138%$1,934 – $13,654
Idaho ID10$10,592+84%$4,799 – $10,592
Minnesota MN16$7,201+25%$4,773 – $7,201
Pennsylvania PA22$5,694−1%$549 – $40,409
Missouri MO13$4,495−22%$1,268 – $60,476
Wisconsin WI24$4,070−29%$3,995 – $4,070
Oregon OR11$2,726−53%$1,568 – $2,726
Michigan MI33$2,484−57%$1,467 – $26,676
Iowa IA24$1,986−65%$1,698 – $2,434
Illinois IL18$1,986−65%$1,050 – $97,970
Nebraska NE10$1,915−67%$1,196 – $3,825
Oklahoma OK12$1,381−76%$1,381 – $1,381
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $5,741.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care443$9,499$1,982 – $40,137
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access83$2,726$1,268 – $7,201
Ownership
For-profit68$18,340$3,236 – $45,521
Government70$2,896$1,590 – $25,376
Non-profit392$5,483$1,857 – $26,676
System affiliation
Part of a system427$7,047$1,934 – $40,208
Independent104$3,448$1,467 – $23,807

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,294
Median cash price$5,741
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

268 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,247 and the average of the middle 60% is $6,087; most fall between $1,381 and $18,334.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 268 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
$1,050$1,467$3,247$18,334$34,163

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 33× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,050 vs $34,163).

Of the 298 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 268 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 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

531 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 583 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted531
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here36
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code583

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 Laminectomy, excision intervertebral disc family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Lam Impltj Nstim Eltrds Plate/Paddle Edrl.

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, “Open placement of spinal stimulator paddle electrode (CPT 63655) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-63655-open-placement-of-spinal-stimulator-paddle-electrode