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Front Spinal Hardware Across Many Levels

Iowa 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 July 2026.

How much does Front Spinal Hardware Across Many Levels cost?

$5,032

Typical total for the visit. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,032 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,230 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,802 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,230$794 to $1,698
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,802$2,239 to $6,761

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,802 · 10th to 90th $1,230 to $9,333Professionalmedian $1,230 · 10th to 90th $708 to $2,512
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,802professional $1,230

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$4,570.88
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$2,187.76
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$2,238.72
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$12,882.50
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$13,182.57
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$3,162.28
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$2,187.76
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,698.24
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,079.46
Median
$9,332.54
Typical High
$14,791.08
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$2,290.87
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,698.24

Where Iowa sits

The same service costs 6.0 times more in California than in West Virginia. 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

Iowa· 16th of 49

$5,032

$1,230 physician + $3,802 facility

CA $9,710WV $1,607

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.