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Epidural Catheter Injection, Lower Back

Louisiana 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?

$817

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $817 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $141 to the doctor who performs it, and $676 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$141$120 to $204
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$676$537 to $1,318

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $676 · 10th to 90th $398 to $1,995Professionalmedian $141 · 10th to 90th $98 to $219
$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $676professional $141

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
$288.40
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$3,467.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$223.87
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,778.28
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$218.78
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$676.08
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,122.02
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$208.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$2,187.76
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$138.04
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
$63.10
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$107.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$42.66
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$158.49
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$32.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$12.59
Median
$14.13
Typical High
$21.38

Where Louisiana 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

Louisiana· 35th of 51

$817

$141 physician + $676 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.