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Epidural Catheter Injection, Lower Back

Arkansas rates for HCPCS 62326

Places a fine tube into the space just outside the covering of the spinal cord in the lower back or tailbone area, so numbing or anti-inflammatory medicine can be given continuously or in repeated doses rather than as a single shot. It is used to control pain over a period of time.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Epidural Catheter Injection, Lower Back cost?

$1,026

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,026 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $155 to the doctor who performs it, and $871 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$155$112 to $200
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$871$479 to $871

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $871 · 10th to 90th $302 to $1,318Professionalmedian $155 · 10th to 90th $98 to $219
$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $871professional $155

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
$112.20
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$2,454.71
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$186.21
BCBS Arkansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,174.90
BCBS Arkansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$204.17
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$1,000.00
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$316.23
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$1,548.82
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$251.19
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
$56.23
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$91.20
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$22.39
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$37.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$138.04
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$16.98
Median
$17.78
Typical High
$27.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$11.22
Median
$12.02
Typical High
$18.62

Where Arkansas sits

The same service costs 7.8 times more in New York than in North Dakota. 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

Arkansas· 27th of 51

$1,026

$155 physician + $871 facility

NY $2,820ND $362

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.