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Epidural Catheter Injection, Lower Back

Rhode Island 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?

$1,100

Typical total for the visit. In Rhode Island, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,100 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $145 to the doctor who performs it, and $955 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$145$110 to $186
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$955$631 to $1,995

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $955 · 10th to 90th $389 to $3,981Professionalmedian $145 · 10th to 90th $105 to $240
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $955professional $145

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
$1,513.56
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$3,981.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$186.21
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$190.55
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,071.52
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$239.88
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$4,265.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$131.83
Typical High
$257.04
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
$54.95
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$93.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$22.39
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$37.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$138.04
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$16.60
Median
$22.39
Typical High
$28.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$14.79
Typical High
$18.62

Where Rhode Island 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

Rhode Island· 24th of 51

$1,100

$145 physician + $955 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.