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Mid-Back Vertebral Body Removal Through the Chest

New Jersey 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?

$3,901

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,901 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,995 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,905 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$1,995$1,738 to $2,512
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,905$977 to $4,266

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,905 · 10th to 90th $380 to $8,511Professionalmedian $1,995 · 10th to 90th $1,072 to $3,090
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,905professional $1,995

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
$4,365.16
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$12,882.50
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$1,995.26
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$2,818.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$3,981.07
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$2,884.03
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$3,090.30
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$5,495.41
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$2,951.21
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
$954.99
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$977.24
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$398.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,479.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$295.12
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$194.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,380.38

Where New Jersey 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

New Jersey· 38th of 51

$3,901

$1,995 physician + $1,905 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.