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Mid-Back Vertebral Body Removal Through the Chest

Kansas rates for HCPCS 63085

Removal of part or all of a vertebral body in the mid-back, reached through the chest, to take pressure off the spinal cord or the nerve roots leaving it. It is used when bone, a growth, an infection, or a collapsed vertebra is pressing on the cord from the front. This covers one level of the spine.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Mid-Back Vertebral Body Removal Through the Chest cost?

$4,429

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,429 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $2,692 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,738 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$2,692$2,291 to $3,236
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,738$776 to $4,677

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,738 · 10th to 90th $437 to $5,754Professionalmedian $2,692 · 10th to 90th $1,950 to $13,804
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,738professional $2,692

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
$3,019.95
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$13,182.57
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$3,019.95
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,162.28
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$3,162.28
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$2,041.74
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$3,235.94
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$5,011.87
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$13,803.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$5,248.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$3,162.28
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
$977.24
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$1,513.56
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$602.56
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$2,290.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$457.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$302.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$2,137.96

Where Kansas sits

The same service costs 14.0 times more in Maine than in Texas. 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

Kansas· 28th of 51

$4,429

$2,692 physician + $1,738 facility

ME $34,704TX $2,477

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.