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Sciatic nerve block, single injection

CPT 64445the billing code this page is about

One injection of numbing medicine and/or steroid around the sciatic nerve in the buttock or thigh to block pain in the leg.

Hospitals typically charge $979 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,152 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,076. Most fall between $400 and $2,046 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,152
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 2,152 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
$212$509$979$1,803$3,090

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($212 vs $3,090).

How the prices are spread

$142 – $201: 94 hospitals$142$201 – $285: 93 hospitals$285 – $404: 139 hospitals$285$404 – $571: 157 hospitals$571 – $809: 251 hospitals$571$809 – $1,145: 380 hospitals$1,145 – $1,620: 314 hospitals$1,145$1,620 – $2,294: 278 hospitals$2,294 – $3,246: 143 hospitals$2,294$3,246 – $4,595: 96 hospitals$3,246median $979price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,945 of 2,152 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$142$20194
$201$28593
$285$404139
$404$571157
$571$809251
$809$1,145380
$1,145$1,620314
$1,620$2,294278
$2,294$3,246143
$3,246$4,59596

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$721
Median cash price$979
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.36×

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 $979.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $604 across 20 hospitalsME$604Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $419 across 16 hospitalsNH$419Washington: median $1,055 across 59 hospitalsWA$1,055Idaho: median $374 across 22 hospitalsID$374Montana: median $245 across 17 hospitalsMT$245North Dakota: median $468 across 12 hospitalsND$468Minnesota: median $864 across 81 hospitalsMN$864Illinois: median $1,139 across 74 hospitalsIL$1,139Wisconsin: median $1,107 across 72 hospitalsWI$1,107Michigan: median $1,040 across 67 hospitalsMI$1,040New York: median $820 across 74 hospitalsNY$820Massachusetts: median $1,087 across 39 hospitalsMA$1,087Oregon: median $494 across 41 hospitalsOR$494Nevada: median $767 across 13 hospitalsNV$767Wyoming: median $782 across 11 hospitalsWY$782South Dakota: median $350 across 12 hospitalsSD$350Iowa: median $541 across 61 hospitalsIA$541Indiana: median $1,139 across 43 hospitalsIN$1,139Ohio: median $1,736 across 128 hospitalsOH$1,736Pennsylvania: median $881 across 91 hospitalsPA$881New Jersey: median $2,431 across 45 hospitalsNJ$2,431Connecticut: median $1,068 across 14 hospitalsCT$1,068Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,451 across 125 hospitalsCA$1,451Utah: median $563 across 25 hospitalsUT$563Colorado: median $979 across 53 hospitalsCO$979Nebraska: median $615 across 42 hospitalsNE$615Missouri: median $846 across 56 hospitalsMO$846Kentucky: median $905 across 30 hospitalsKY$905West Virginia: median $842 across 27 hospitalsWV$842Virginia: median $842 across 48 hospitalsVA$842Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $866 across 31 hospitalsAZ$866New Mexico: median $1,044 across 20 hospitalsNM$1,044Kansas: median $454 across 61 hospitalsKS$454Arkansas: median $912 across 24 hospitalsAR$912Tennessee: median $679 across 37 hospitalsTN$679North Carolina: median $1,014 across 66 hospitalsNC$1,014South Carolina: median $1,450 across 39 hospitalsSC$1,450Oklahoma: median $770 across 45 hospitalsOK$770Louisiana: median $481 across 39 hospitalsLA$481Mississippi: median $451 across 32 hospitalsMS$451Alabama: median $1,162 across 21 hospitalsAL$1,162Georgia: median $1,687 across 60 hospitalsGA$1,687Hawaii: median $1,619 across 11 hospitalsHI$1,619Texas: median $935 across 135 hospitalsTX$935Florida: median $1,689 across 82 hospitalsFL$1,689
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $979. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ45$2,431+148%$767 – $5,339
Ohio OH128$1,736+77%$758 – $3,106
Florida FL82$1,689+73%$675 – $2,203
Georgia GA60$1,687+72%$1,131 – $2,869
Hawaii HI11$1,619+65%$1,478 – $1,873
California CA125$1,451+48%$797 – $4,091
South Carolina SC39$1,450+48%$723 – $1,806
Alabama AL21$1,162+19%$600 – $1,302
Illinois IL74$1,139+16%$354 – $2,137
Indiana IN43$1,139+16%$681 – $2,781
Wisconsin WI72$1,107+13%$355 – $1,645
Massachusetts MA39$1,087+11%$639 – $2,156
Connecticut CT14$1,068+9%$380 – $1,695
Washington WA59$1,055+8%$450 – $1,616
New Mexico NM20$1,044+7%$382 – $3,716
Michigan MI67$1,040+6%$119 – $2,081
North Carolina NC66$1,014+4%$605 – $1,341
Colorado CO53$9790%$496 – $1,378
Texas TX135$935−4%$705 – $2,166
Arkansas AR24$912−7%$278 – $2,359
Kentucky KY30$905−8%$624 – $1,988
Pennsylvania PA91$881−10%$628 – $2,285
Arizona AZ31$866−12%$293 – $3,911
Minnesota MN81$864−12%$327 – $1,397
Missouri MO56$846−14%$406 – $1,913
Virginia VA48$842−14%$672 – $1,702
West Virginia WV27$842−14%$779 – $1,376
New York NY74$820−16%$210 – $2,250
Wyoming WY11$782−20%$149 – $1,271
Oklahoma OK45$770−21%$324 – $1,521
Nevada NV13$767−22%$305 – $2,994
Tennessee TN37$679−31%$299 – $2,246
Nebraska NE42$615−37%$179 – $1,087
Maine ME20$604−38%$136 – $1,087
Utah UT25$563−42%$507 – $824
Iowa IA61$541−45%$239 – $1,120
Oregon OR41$494−49%$285 – $1,712
Louisiana LA39$481−51%$271 – $905
North Dakota ND12$468−52%$152 – $1,401
Kansas KS61$454−54%$161 – $951
Mississippi MS32$451−54%$228 – $944
New Hampshire NH16$419−57%$166 – $1,017
Idaho ID22$374−62%$226 – $1,886
South Dakota SD12$350−64%$350 – $721
Montana MT17$245−75%$114 – $725
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $979.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,580$1,114$546 – $2,203
Children’s35$1,354$439 – $2,250
Critical access529$660$209 – $1,394
Ownership
For-profit214$1,170$605 – $3,765
Government383$790$318 – $1,427
Non-profit1,547$1,014$420 – $2,118
System affiliation
Part of a system1,756$1,052$479 – $2,167
Independent396$677$190 – $1,391

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,836
Median cash price$979
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

1,522 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,058 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,139; most fall between $454 and $2,091.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,522 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
$263$559$1,058$1,860$2,867

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($263 vs $2,867).

Of the 1,621 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,522 gave a usable cash price; 40 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 59 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,152 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (54%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,292 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,152
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here72
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded66
Hospitals that filed this code2,292

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 Other non-OR or closed therapeutic nervous system procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Injection Aa&/Strd Sciatic Nerve W/Img Gdn.

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, “Sciatic nerve block, single injection (CPT 64445) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-64445-sciatic-nerve-block-single-injection