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
HC CT LUMBAR SPINE W/CONTRAST
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Based on 3,086–15,767 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$45
Average
$1.3k
Median
$935
High
$53.7k
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| 1 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $1.1k | $942 | $333 | 35% | 207–270 | $276 – $1.2k |
| 2 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Lexington, KY | $1.6k | $3.2k | $3.2k | 100% | 180–198 | $325 – $10.4k |
| 3 | Covenant Medical Center Inc Saginaw, MI | $186 | $388 | $502 | 129% | 180–234 | $44 – $2.2k |
| 4 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc. Louisville, KY | $1.9k | $3.1k | $3.0k | 97% | 178–214 | $148 – $10.2k |
| 5 | Duke University Hospital Durham, NC | $1.3k | $1.7k | $1.5k | 91% | 109–280 | $332 – $5.7k |
| 6 | Duke University Hospital Raleigh, NC | $1.3k | $1.7k | $1.5k | 91% | 109–280 | $332 – $5.7k |
| 7 | Norton Hospitals INC Louisville, KY | $717 | $1.6k | $1.5k | 94% | 94–175 | $115 – $4.4k |
| 8 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $1.1k | $1.0k | $444 | 44% | 83–200 | $223 – $1.8k |
| 9 | University of Virginia Medical Center Charlottesville, VA | $966 | $1.1k | $969 | 90% | 62–161 | $120 – $5.1k |
| 10 | Columbia Lutheran Charities Astoria, OR | $804 | $994 | $852 | 86% | 58–310 | $33 – $2.2k |
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