CPT 22521
Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.
Original text from hospital filings
Percut Vertebroplasty Lumb
Low
$1
Average
$8.0k
Median
$7.0k
High
$27.1k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
29 payers; the 90th percentile is 4.7× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many payers fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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| 1 | Oscar case rate · outpatient · +6 other terms | 52 | $6.1k | $4.7k | $1.7k | 37% | — | $3.3k – $9.7k |
| 2 | Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient | 39 | $5.8k | $7.8k | $5.4k | 68% | — | $2.1k – $14.6k |
| 3 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms | 35 | $7.9k | $8.0k | $6.0k | 75% | — | $2.2k – $33.6k |
| 4 | MultiPlan case rate · outpatient · +5 other terms | 30 | $9.9k | $9.6k | $1.8k | 19% | — | $5.3k – $13.7k |
| 5 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms | 24 | $5.4k | $7.3k | $3.8k | 52% | — | $1.8k – $15.6k |
| 6 | Humana case rate · outpatient · +4 other terms | 21 | $10.6k | $10.0k | $1.6k | 16% | — | $4.5k – $10.6k |
| 7 | Cigna facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms | 19 | $7.4k | $7.9k | $4.9k | 62% | — | $2.8k – $14.7k |
| 8 | Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient | 18 | $2.4k | $2.4k | — | — | — | $2.4k – $2.4k |
| 9 | Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms | 15 | $1.5k | $16.7k | $22.5k | 135% | — | $1.5k – $50k |
| 10 | Phcs fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 13 | $3.2k | $4.1k | $1.4k | 34% | — | $3.2k – $6.2k |
← Hospitals reporting CPT 22521 · Snapshot 20261113T090226Z-3ce6c0b8