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Nerve-Numbing Injection Into The Lower Spinal Canal

Alabama rates for HCPCS 62282

This procedure injects a substance into the lower back's spinal canal that permanently interrupts pain signals traveling along nearby nerves. It's used for severe, hard-to-control pain, most often in people with advanced cancer, when other pain treatments haven't been enough. The effect is intended to be long-lasting rather than temporary.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Nerve-Numbing Injection Into The Lower Spinal Canal cost?

$288

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $288 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $245 from a physician practice, and about $1,259 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$245$148 to $417
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,259$891 to $1,585

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,259 · 10th to 90th $562 to $2,188Professionalmedian $245 · 10th to 90th $120 to $468
$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $1,259professional $245

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
$562.34
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$467.74
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,905.46
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$407.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$537.03
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$2,511.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$489.78

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 4.6 times more in Hawaii 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.

Alabama· 41st of 51

$288

HI $1,122KY $245

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.