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Epidural Catheter Injection, Lower Back

Tennessee 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?

$1,103

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,103 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $148 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$148$115 to $214
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$955$575 to $1,514

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $955 · 10th to 90th $427 to $2,291Professionalmedian $148 · 10th to 90th $85 to $1,000
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $955professional $148

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
$891.25
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$7,585.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$131.83
Typical High
$190.55
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,949.84
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$229.09
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$2,187.76
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$223.87
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,318.26
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$2,511.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$263.03
6 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
$40.74
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$95.50
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$24.55
Typical High
$38.02
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$141.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$12.30
Median
$18.62
Typical High
$28.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$8.13
Median
$12.30
Typical High
$19.05
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
XU · Unusual separate service
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$204.17

Where Tennessee 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

Tennessee· 23rd of 51

$1,103

$148 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.