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Epidural Catheter Injection, Lower Back

New Jersey 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?

$1,780

Typical total for the visit. In New Jersey, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,780 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $120 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,660 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$120$91.20 to $170
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,660$933 to $3,311

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,660 · 10th to 90th $589 to $5,495Professionalmedian $120 · 10th to 90th $59 to $234
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $1,660professional $120

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
$2,570.40
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$10,964.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$169.82
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$2,187.76
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$234.42
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$257.04
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$3,311.31
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$288.40
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$204.17
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
$46.77
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$85.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$24.55
Typical High
$34.67
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$128.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$13.80
Median
$18.62
Typical High
$25.70
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$12.30
Typical High
$16.98

Where New Jersey 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

New Jersey· 8th of 51

$1,780

$120 physician + $1,660 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.