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
SINGLE LEVEL SPINAL FUSION EXCEPT CERVICAL WITH MCC OR CUSTOM-MADE ANATOMICALLY DESIGNED INTERBODY FUSION DEVICE
Based on 1,001–5,213 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$56
Average
$59.6k
Median
$56.6k
High
$257.5k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc PITTSBURGH, PA | $39.0k | $39.4k | $32.5k | 82% | 324 | $160 – $107.4k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $324.9k | $257.5k | $86.6k | 34% | 209 | $100.8k – $324.9k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $181.9k | $201.8k | $134.5k | 67% | 43–430 | $37.9k – $404.2k |
| 4 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $126.4k | $139.1k | $88.9k | 64% | 32–320 | $749 – $258.6k |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $83.1k | $115.1k | $74.6k | 65% | 30–300 | $37.9k – $245.5k |
| 6 | Orlando Health, Inc. Orlando, FL | $66.6k | $75.7k | $35.0k | 46% | 11–110 | $42.2k – $218.8k |
| 7 | Emory University Atlanta, GA | $51.9k | $74.5k | $36.3k | 49% | 9–90 | $43.9k – $226.2k |
| 8 | Riverside Methodist Hospital Columbus, OH | $42.6k | $64.4k | $35.5k | 55% | 8–80 | $18.1k – $153.5k |
| 9 | Crawford Long Hospital Atlanta, GA | $49.2k | $65.1k | $23.3k | 36% | 7–70 | $42.5k – $109.3k |
| 10 | Ucsf Medical Center San Francisco, CA | $82.4k | $106.8k | $50.3k | 47% | 7–70 | $44.0k – $254.8k |
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