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Front Spinal Hardware Across Many Levels

Nebraska 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?

$6,230

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,230 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,660 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,571 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$1,660$1,202 to $1,862
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,571$2,754 to $9,772

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,571 · 10th to 90th $1,585 to $15,849Professionalmedian $1,660 · 10th to 90th $977 to $2,455
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $4,571professional $1,660

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
$1,548.82
Median
$4,365.16
Typical High
$11,481.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,288.25
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$12,022.64
Median
$15,848.93
Typical High
$32,359.37
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,071.52
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$1,862.09
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$8,128.31
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$13,182.57
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$2,398.83
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$2,454.71
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,698.24
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$7,244.36
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$2,187.76
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
$354.81
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$602.56
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$245.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$912.01
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$181.97
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$123.03

Where Nebraska 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

Nebraska· 6th of 51

$6,230

$1,660 physician + $4,571 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.