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
LUMBAR SPINE FUSION
Low
$1.4k
Average
$8.0k
Median
$6.6k
High
$34.5k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
63 payers; the 90th percentile is 8.4× 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 | Cigna case rate · outpatient · +25 other terms | 252 | $8.8k | $24.4k | $26.0k | 107% | 2–20 | $1 – $105.6k |
| 2 | UnitedHealthcare case rate · outpatient · +30 other terms | 387 | $20.6k | $20.7k | $13.6k | 66% | 1–10 | $1 – $60.2k |
| 3 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms | 323 | $23.1k | $17.5k | $16.2k | 92% | — | $79 – $112.2k |
| 4 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms | 318 | $17.3k | $18.4k | $20.0k | 109% | — | $0 – $186.5k |
| 5 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms | 188 | $10.9k | $15.5k | $13.4k | 86% | — | $734 – $78.4k |
| 6 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms | 104 | $2.4k | $11.6k | $28.8k | 247% | — | $1.3k – $198.6k |
| 7 | Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms | 96 | $19.9k | $21.2k | $20.1k | 95% | — | $112 – $62.8k |
| 8 | Oscar case rate · outpatient · +23 other terms | 74 | $41k | $33.7k | $18.2k | 54% | — | $3.4k – $64.8k |
| 9 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms | 70 | $1.5k | $22.2k | $33.8k | 152% | — | $75 – $218.0k |
| 10 | WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms | 67 | $29.4k | $20.3k | $14.0k | 69% | — | $272 – $37.2k |
| 11 | Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient | 53 | $5.8k | $9.2k | $5.1k | 55% | — | $2.1k – $14.6k |
| 12 | Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms | 52 | $46.6k | $46.2k | $13.7k | 30% | — | $2.1k – $72.3k |
| 13 | Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms | 52 | $25.2k | $18.3k | $12.4k | 68% | — | $1.4k – $30.3k |
| 14 | Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms | 41 | $24.6k | $22.4k | $25.0k | 112% | — | $1.5k – $100.2k |
| 15 | Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +3 other terms | 41 | $2.4k | $2.4k | $18 | 1% | — | $2.3k – $2.4k |
| 16 | Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms | 35 | $726 | $1.3k | $1.2k | 97% | — | $98 – $4.8k |
| 17 | Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 31 | $2.5k | $2.5k | $1.1k | 41% | — | $1.3k – $6.7k |
| 18 | Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms | 30 | $31.8k | $29.4k | $10.8k | 37% | — | $450 – $46.4k |
| 19 | Medica case rate · outpatient · +16 other terms | 26 | $5.4k | $8.4k | $6.1k | 72% | — | $2.2k – $23.3k |
| 20 | Bcbs La fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 25 | $6.1k | $8.7k | $6.7k | 77% | — | $3.9k – $27.2k |
| 21 | Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms | 24 | $24.6k | $23.5k | $16.4k | 70% | — | $1.3k – $50k |
| 22 | Ucare professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms | 22 | $532 | $484 | $256 | 53% | — | $73 – $1.1k |
| 23 | Highmark fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms | 20 | $1.7k | $4.8k | $12.0k | 249% | — | $857 – $79.6k |
| 24 | Clover facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms | 18 | $26.8k | $27.2k | $1.5k | 6% | — | $25.1k – $29.1k |
| 25 | First Health professional · fee schedule · both · +18 other terms | 18 | $1.1k | $956 | $1.3k | 140% | — | $72 – $4.0k |
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