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
Discography cerv/thor spine
Atlanta, GA
See all hospitals reporting CPT 72285 →Price type
Emory University’s median price of $167 is 92% below the median hospital's median price ($2.0k), higher than 17% of the 1,644 hospitals reporting CPT 72285. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Negotiated rates from the hospital’s own file: 11 payers, 19 plan rates. A facility fee, a professional fee, a per diem and a case rate are different bills, so each is listed on its own. Open a payer to see it across hospitals.
Filter by billing methodology
Filter by billing class
| # | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aetna exchange facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $113 | $113 | — | — | — | $113 – $113 |
| 2 | Cigna hmo/pos facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $113 | $113 | — | — | — | $113 – $113 |
| 3 | Blue Cross Blue Shield blue pathways exchange facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $114 | $114 | — | — | — | $114 – $114 |
| 4 | Kaiser hmo facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $125 | $125 | — | — | — | $125 – $125 |
| 5 | Aetna hpn whole health other commercial plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $136 | $136 | — | — | — | $136 – $136 |
| 6 | Blue Cross Blue Shield hpn other commercial plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $142 | $142 | — | — | — | $142 – $142 |
| 7 | Oscar exchange facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $144 | $144 | — | — | — | $144 – $144 |
| 8 | Humana hmo/pos facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $157 | $157 | — | — | — | $157 – $157 |
| 9 | Humana medicare managed care plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $157 | $157 | — | — | — | $157 – $157 |
| 10 | Blue Cross Blue Shield hmo facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $167 | $167 | — | — | — | $167 – $167 |
| 11 | Devoted medicare managed care plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $2.0k | $2.0k | — | — | — | $2.0k – $2.0k |
| 12 | Blue Cross Blue Shield blue value secure medicare managed care plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $2.0k | $2.0k | — | — | — | $2.0k – $2.0k |
| 13 | Aetna medicare managed care plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $2.0k | $2.0k | — | — | — | $2.0k – $2.0k |
| 14 | Cigna healthspring medicare managed care plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $2.0k | $2.0k | — | — | — | $2.0k – $2.0k |
| 15 | Clover medicare managed care plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $2.1k | $2.1k | — | — | — | $2.1k – $2.1k |
| 16 | WellCare medicare managed care plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $2.1k | $2.1k | — | — | — | $2.1k – $2.1k |
| 17 | Ambetter peach state exchange facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $4.2k | $4.2k | — | — | — | $4.2k – $4.2k |
| 18 | UnitedHealthcare core/charter/nexus other commercial plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $4.3k | $4.3k | — | — | — | $4.3k – $4.3k |
| 19 | UnitedHealthcare hmo/pos facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $4.3k | $4.3k | — | — | — | $4.3k – $4.3k |
Last updated: Apr 1, 2026
See Cervical or thoracic spine discography with imaging review pricing across every hospital in the network reporting it, or ask Claude or any MCP client directly — see how to connect.