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

Steroid or numbing injection near a low back nerve root

CPT 64483the billing code this page is about

An injection of anesthetic and/or steroid through the opening where a nerve root exits the lumbar or sacral spine, using imaging guidance; covers one spinal level on one side.

Hospitals typically charge $1,280 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,415 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,353. Most fall between $577 and $2,315 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,415
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 2,415 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
$348$706$1,280$2,178$3,366

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($348 vs $3,366).

How the prices are spread

$227 – $307: 77 hospitals$227$307 – $414: 96 hospitals$414 – $559: 152 hospitals$414$559 – $754: 209 hospitals$754 – $1,018: 276 hospitals$754$1,018 – $1,374: 357 hospitals$1,374 – $1,855: 365 hospitals$1,374$1,855 – $2,504: 327 hospitals$2,504 – $3,380: 201 hospitals$2,504$3,380 – $4,563: 115 hospitals$3,380median $1,280price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,175 of 2,415 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$227$30777
$307$41496
$414$559152
$559$754209
$754$1,018276
$1,018$1,374357
$1,374$1,855365
$1,855$2,504327
$2,504$3,380201
$3,380$4,563115

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$904
Median cash price$1,280
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.42×

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 $1,280.

Alaska: median $2,262 across 10 hospitalsAK$2,262Maine: median $827 across 20 hospitalsME$827Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $689 across 14 hospitalsNH$689Washington: median $1,446 across 56 hospitalsWA$1,446Idaho: median $1,753 across 21 hospitalsID$1,753Montana: median $382 across 20 hospitalsMT$382North Dakota: median $716 across 12 hospitalsND$716Minnesota: median $1,270 across 88 hospitalsMN$1,270Illinois: median $1,232 across 102 hospitalsIL$1,232Wisconsin: median $778 across 82 hospitalsWI$778Michigan: median $955 across 75 hospitalsMI$955New York: median $1,448 across 85 hospitalsNY$1,448Massachusetts: median $1,607 across 41 hospitalsMA$1,607Oregon: median $1,536 across 38 hospitalsOR$1,536Nevada: median $920 across 14 hospitalsNV$920Wyoming: median $587 across 13 hospitalsWY$587South Dakota: median $1,005 across 17 hospitalsSD$1,005Iowa: median $1,046 across 85 hospitalsIA$1,046Indiana: median $932 across 55 hospitalsIN$932Ohio: median $1,877 across 132 hospitalsOH$1,877Pennsylvania: median $1,276 across 98 hospitalsPA$1,276New Jersey: median $1,216 across 54 hospitalsNJ$1,216Connecticut: median $2,455 across 18 hospitalsCT$2,455Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,940 across 158 hospitalsCA$1,940Utah: median $1,218 across 32 hospitalsUT$1,218Colorado: median $1,265 across 62 hospitalsCO$1,265Nebraska: median $1,060 across 62 hospitalsNE$1,060Missouri: median $1,461 across 63 hospitalsMO$1,461Kentucky: median $1,250 across 31 hospitalsKY$1,250West Virginia: median $1,017 across 29 hospitalsWV$1,017Virginia: median $1,221 across 43 hospitalsVA$1,221Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $897 across 38 hospitalsAZ$897New Mexico: median $1,264 across 14 hospitalsNM$1,264Kansas: median $710 across 74 hospitalsKS$710Arkansas: median $565 across 23 hospitalsAR$565Tennessee: median $506 across 45 hospitalsTN$506North Carolina: median $1,328 across 60 hospitalsNC$1,328South Carolina: median $2,242 across 41 hospitalsSC$2,242Oklahoma: median $953 across 45 hospitalsOK$953Louisiana: median $680 across 35 hospitalsLA$680Mississippi: median $518 across 44 hospitalsMS$518Alabama: median $1,226 across 28 hospitalsAL$1,226Georgia: median $1,607 across 69 hospitalsGA$1,607Hawaii: median $1,309 across 12 hospitalsHI$1,309Texas: median $1,482 across 144 hospitalsTX$1,482Florida: median $2,144 across 84 hospitalsFL$2,144
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,280. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Connecticut CT18$2,455+92%$1,385 – $3,591
Alaska AK10$2,262+77%$620 – $3,119
South Carolina SC41$2,242+75%$1,419 – $2,315
Florida FL84$2,144+68%$1,013 – $2,963
California CA158$1,940+52%$1,022 – $3,902
Ohio OH132$1,877+47%$1,032 – $3,927
Idaho ID21$1,753+37%$681 – $2,430
Georgia GA69$1,607+26%$1,125 – $4,176
Massachusetts MA41$1,607+26%$1,024 – $2,603
Oregon OR38$1,536+20%$390 – $2,547
Texas TX144$1,482+16%$738 – $2,285
Missouri MO63$1,461+14%$868 – $2,212
New York NY85$1,448+13%$565 – $2,714
Washington WA56$1,446+13%$513 – $2,239
North Carolina NC60$1,328+4%$859 – $2,207
Hawaii HI12$1,309+2%$800 – $2,126
Pennsylvania PA98$1,2760%$843 – $2,675
Minnesota MN88$1,270−1%$841 – $1,886
Colorado CO62$1,265−1%$673 – $2,226
New Mexico NM14$1,264−1%$367 – $2,019
Kentucky KY31$1,250−2%$601 – $1,867
Illinois IL102$1,232−4%$564 – $2,570
Alabama AL28$1,226−4%$541 – $2,249
Virginia VA43$1,221−5%$582 – $1,825
Utah UT32$1,218−5%$1,108 – $1,432
New Jersey NJ54$1,216−5%$985 – $4,881
Nebraska NE62$1,060−17%$586 – $1,687
Iowa IA85$1,046−18%$455 – $1,841
West Virginia WV29$1,017−21%$576 – $2,075
South Dakota SD17$1,005−21%$692 – $1,688
Michigan MI75$955−25%$173 – $1,657
Oklahoma OK45$953−26%$563 – $1,772
Indiana IN55$932−27%$544 – $1,791
Nevada NV14$920−28%$527 – $2,343
Arizona AZ38$897−30%$517 – $4,768
Maine ME20$827−35%$355 – $1,163
Wisconsin WI82$778−39%$496 – $1,779
North Dakota ND12$716−44%$491 – $1,555
Kansas KS74$710−45%$322 – $1,494
New Hampshire NH14$689−46%$120 – $1,945
Louisiana LA35$680−47%$320 – $1,422
Wyoming WY13$587−54%$353 – $1,667
Arkansas AR23$565−56%$481 – $1,216
Mississippi MS44$518−59%$443 – $1,240
Tennessee TN45$506−60%$292 – $1,104
Montana MT20$382−70%$147 – $863
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not 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 $1,280.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,765$1,411$731 – $2,610
Children’s42$1,877$954 – $4,341
Critical access600$874$384 – $1,702
Ownership
For-profit245$1,486$770 – $2,792
Government445$1,023$429 – $1,840
Non-profit1,717$1,328$615 – $2,465
System affiliation
Part of a system1,972$1,350$680 – $2,490
Independent443$988$355 – $1,835

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,313
Median cash price$1,280
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

1,656 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,432 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,478; most fall between $680 and $2,490.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,656 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
$417$778$1,432$2,249$3,366

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($417 vs $3,366).

Of the 1,785 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,656 gave a usable cash price; 44 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 85 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,415 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (61%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,597 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,415
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here76
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded9
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded97
Hospitals that filed this code2,597

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 Njx Aa&/Strd Tfrml Epi Lumbar/Sacral 1 Level.

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, “Steroid or numbing injection near a low back nerve root (CPT 64483) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-64483-steroid-or-numbing-injection-near-a-low-back-nerve-root