CPT 62268 · 1,013 hospitals reporting

Drain spinal cord cyst

The same procedure costs $109 at one hospital and $14,028 at another — a 129× spread for what's billed under the same code. Median: $1,165.

Cheapest published

$109

1 entries below $50 already filtered. Remaining low values usually reflect partial-cost line items (professional fee only), not full bills.

Median across 1,013 hospitals

$1,165

The realistic middle of the cash-price distribution. Use this as your benchmark.

Most expensive

$14,028

Highest published price. Often a gross-charge "list price" rarely actually paid.

Price distribution

247 hospitals · log-scale x-axis

Each bar = number of hospitals charging in that price range. Emerald bar contains the median. Amber dots = entries we flagged as likely partial-cost line items (excluded from the table below).

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Why some prices look unrealistically low or high

Hospitals publish their machine-readable files (MRFs) the way they choose. A single procedure code can appear with very different prices depending on what's being charged:

Global price — facility + implant + anesthesia + surgeon. This is what you'd actually be billed.
Professional fee only — surgeon's portion. Often $500–$2,500 for a major procedure that costs $20K+ globally.
Facility fee only — operating room and recovery, no implant or surgeon.
Per-unit / per-minute charges — e.g. anesthesia time billed at $0.68/min appearing under a CPT code.
Rate multipliers — values like 0.85 meaning "85% of Medicare" rather than dollars.

We filter the most obvious artifacts (under $50, or 25× above the median), but rows in the $500–$2K range for a major procedure are typically professional-only and we can't always tell. Use the median and high-end as the realistic range; treat very low rows as partial-cost line items, not full bills.

500 hospitals reporting

Hospital	State	Gross	Cash price	Min negotiated	Max negotiated	Your insurer
OKLAHOMA SPINE HOSPITAL	OK	$1,286	$1,165	—	—	5 insurers
RIVER'S EDGE HOSPITAL & CLINIC	MN	$1,451	$1,161	—	—	5 insurers
THOMAS HOSPITAL	AL	$2,362	$1,181	—	—	5 insurers
ADVENTHEALTH FISH MEMORIAL	FL	$2,173	$1,195	$495	$2,272	5 insurers
BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL	CT	$2,347	$1,197	—	—	5 insurers
CHESAPEAKE GENERAL HOSPITAL	VA	$1,870	$1,122	—	—	0 insurers
CHEYENNE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER	WY	$1,733	$1,213	—	—	4 insurers
CHRISTUS SOUTHEAST TEXAS- ST ELIZABETH	TX	$3,369	$1,112	$297	$5,088	5 insurers
GREENWICH HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION -	CT	$2,347	$1,221	—	—	5 insurers
MONTEFIORE ST LUKE'S CORNWALL	NY	—	$1,104	—	—	5 insurers
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL - PANORAMA CITY	CA	$3,147	$1,101	$582	$1,574	3 insurers
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL - LOS ANGELES	CA	$3,147	$1,101	$582	$1,574	3 insurers
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL - DOWNEY	CA	$3,147	$1,101	$582	$1,574	3 insurers
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL FONTANA/ONTARIO	CA	$3,147	$1,101	$582	$1,574	3 insurers
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL - SAN DIEGO	CA	$3,147	$1,101	$582	$1,574	3 insurers
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL - WEST LA	CA	$3,147	$1,101	$582	$1,574	3 insurers
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL - WOODLAND HILLS	CA	$3,147	$1,101	$582	$1,574	3 insurers
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL, RIVERSIDE	CA	$3,147	$1,101	$582	$1,574	3 insurers
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL - BALDWIN PARK	CA	$3,147	$1,101	$582	$1,574	3 insurers
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL-MORENO VALLEY	CA	$3,147	$1,101	$582	$1,574	3 insurers
REYNOLDS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	WV	$2,463	$1,232	—	—	5 insurers
ST JOSEPHS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL WEST BEND	WI	$2,251	$1,238	—	—	5 insurers
MAUI MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER	HI	$2,718	$1,060	—	—	3 insurers
CHI HEALTH MERCY COUNCIL BLUFFS	IA	$3,026	$1,271	$1,816	$2,572	3 insurers
CHI HEALTH MERCY COUNCIL BLUFFS	IA	$3,026	$1,271	$454	$3,259	5 insurers
CHI HEALTH BERGAN MERCY	NE	$3,026	$1,271	$1,816	$2,572	3 insurers
CHI HEALTH BERGAN MERCY	NE	$3,026	$1,271	$514	$3,259	5 insurers
CHI HEALTH IMMANUEL	NE	$3,026	$1,271	$1,816	$2,572	3 insurers
CHI HEALTH IMMANUEL	NE	$3,026	$1,271	$424	$3,259	5 insurers
CHI HEALTH MIDLANDS	NE	$3,026	$1,271	$1,816	$2,572	3 insurers
CHI HEALTH MIDLANDS	NE	$3,026	$1,271	$545	$3,259	5 insurers
CHI HEALTH LAKESIDE	NE	$3,026	$1,271	$1,816	$2,572	3 insurers
CHI HEALTH LAKESIDE	NE	$3,026	$1,271	$484	$3,259	5 insurers
THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT HEALTH NETWORK-ALICE HY	NY	$1,274	$1,274	—	—	5 insurers
SURGICAL INSTITUTE OF READING	PA	$4,048	$1,276	$346	$189,446	5 insurers
M HEALTH FAIRVIEW RIDGES HOSPITAL	MN	$2,475	$1,052	—	—	4 insurers
ST TAMMANY PARISH HOSPITAL	LA	$2,144	$1,286	—	—	0 insurers
WETZEL COUNTY HOSPITAL	WV	$2,052	$1,026	—	—	5 insurers
SAINT MICHAEL'S MEDICAL CENTER	NJ	$3,195	$1,025	$21.83	$3,195	5 insurers
PRINCETON BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER	AL	$2,034	$1,017	—	—	5 insurers