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Front Spinal Hardware Across Many Levels

Louisiana 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?

$2,502

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,502 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,023 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,479 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,023$794 to $1,288
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,479$1,072 to $3,467

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,479 · 10th to 90th $676 to $5,754Professionalmedian $1,023 · 10th to 90th $724 to $1,549
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,479professional $1,023

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
$512.86
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$3,715.35
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,548.82
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,288.25
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$676.08
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$398.11
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,584.89
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$6,456.54
Typical High
$12,882.50
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,584.89

Where Louisiana 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

Louisiana· 43rd of 49

$2,502

$1,023 physician + $1,479 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.