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Front Spinal Hardware Across Many Levels

Georgia rates for HCPCS 22847

Places rods, screws, or plates along the front of the spine to hold it steady while a fusion knits, spanning a long stretch of the spinal column. It is carried out as part of a larger spine operation and is billed in addition to that operation.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Front Spinal Hardware Across Many Levels cost?

$3,336

Typical total for the visit. In Georgia, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,336 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,148 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,188 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,148$955 to $1,514
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,188$851 to $5,248

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,188 · 10th to 90th $562 to $15,136Professionalmedian $1,148 · 10th to 90th $776 to $1,862
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $2,188professional $1,148

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$16,982.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,023.29
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$19,952.62
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,819.70
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
80 · Assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$302.00
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$263.03
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$8,317.64
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$2,089.30
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$2,951.21
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,412.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$10,000.00
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$2,041.74
5 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$467.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$186.21
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$691.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$141.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$93.33

Where Georgia sits

The same service costs 4.6 times more in Alaska than in Kentucky. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility fee

Georgia· 41st of 51

$3,336

$1,148 physician + $2,188 facility

AK $9,843KY $2,122

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.