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

Continuous nerve block beside the spine, mid-back

CPT 64463the billing code this page is about

Placement of a catheter next to the nerves alongside the thoracic spine on one side, with a continuous infusion of numbing medicine for pain control; imaging guidance is included.

Hospitals typically charge $1,171 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 539 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,243. Most fall between $496 and $2,247 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
539
States
42
Filings dated
Aug 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 539 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
$245$689$1,171$2,171$3,106

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($245 vs $3,106).

How the prices are spread

$137 – $190: 14 hospitals$137$190 – $264: 26 hospitals$264 – $366: 9 hospitals$264$366 – $509: 43 hospitals$509 – $707: 27 hospitals$509$707 – $982: 90 hospitals$982 – $1,365: 80 hospitals$982$1,365 – $1,897: 79 hospitals$1,897 – $2,635: 59 hospitals$1,897$2,635 – $3,662: 66 hospitals$2,635median $1,171price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (493 of 539 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$137$19014
$190$26426
$264$3669
$366$50943
$509$70727
$707$98290
$982$1,36580
$1,365$1,89779
$1,897$2,63559
$2,635$3,66266

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$721
Median cash price$1,171
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.62×

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 $1,171.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 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: median $1,545 across 18 hospitalsWA$1,545Idaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,073 across 31 hospitalsIL$1,073Wisconsin: median $1,177 across 33 hospitalsWI$1,177Michigan: median $865 across 17 hospitalsMI$865New York: median $820 across 20 hospitalsNY$820Massachusetts: median $2,151 across 10 hospitalsMA$2,151Oregon: median $784 across 16 hospitalsOR$784Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $496 across 22 hospitalsIA$496Indiana: median $459 across 20 hospitalsIN$459Ohio: median $3,106 across 22 hospitalsOH$3,106Pennsylvania: median $938 across 27 hospitalsPA$938New Jersey: median $2,930 across 24 hospitalsNJ$2,930Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,173 across 52 hospitalsCA$2,173Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $1,524 across 17 hospitalsCO$1,524Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $787 across 11 hospitalsKY$787West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,404 across 20 hospitalsVA$1,404Maryland: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $137 across 13 hospitalsOK$137Louisiana: 9 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: median $1,123 across 25 hospitalsGA$1,123Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $2,171 across 47 hospitalsTX$2,171Florida: median $2,203 across 14 hospitalsFL$2,203
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,171. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH22$3,106+165%$1,054 – $3,106
New Jersey NJ24$2,930+150%$767 – $5,419
Florida FL14$2,203+88%$2,203 – $3,882
California CA52$2,173+86%$1,321 – $2,873
Texas TX47$2,171+85%$1,573 – $3,243
Massachusetts MA10$2,151+84%$1,632 – $2,488
Washington WA18$1,545+32%$1,106 – $2,200
Colorado CO17$1,524+30%$1,039 – $4,231
Virginia VA20$1,404+20%$999 – $2,236
Wisconsin WI33$1,1770%$865 – $1,298
Georgia GA25$1,123−4%$1,123 – $2,706
Illinois IL31$1,073−8%$245 – $1,834
Pennsylvania PA27$938−20%$469 – $1,491
Michigan MI17$865−26%$262 – $971
New York NY20$820−30%$721 – $838
Kentucky KY11$787−33%$596 – $1,236
Oregon OR16$784−33%$405 – $1,535
Iowa IA22$496−58%$463 – $1,171
Indiana IN20$459−61%$245 – $653
Oklahoma OK13$137−88%$137 – $1,412
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $1,171.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care442$1,312$607 – $2,632
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access79$865$245 – $1,542
Ownership
For-profit34$865$245 – $2,171
Government67$983$482 – $1,722
Non-profit436$1,298$581 – $2,479
System affiliation
Part of a system477$1,236$565 – $2,391
Independent62$866$273 – $1,758

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,167
Median cash price$1,171
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

404 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,321 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,375; most fall between $496 and $2,548.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 404 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
$262$692$1,321$2,203$3,106

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($262 vs $3,106).

Of the 428 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 404 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

539 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 576 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted539
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here22
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 — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code576

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 Pvb Thoracic Cont Catheter Infusion W/Img Gid.

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, “Continuous nerve block beside the spine, mid-back (CPT 64463) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-64463-continuous-nerve-block-beside-the-spine-mid-back