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Vertebral Body Removal to Free the Spinal Cord

Nationwide rates for HCPCS 63102

Removal of part or all of a vertebral body at one level of the back, taking pressure off the spinal cord and the nerve roots leaving it. It is used when bone, a tumor, an infection, or a collapsed vertebra is pressing on the cord from the front. Restoring support to the spine where the bone was taken out is handled as a separate part of the operation.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Vertebral Body Removal to Free the Spinal Cord cost?

$10,547

Typical total for the visit. Nationwide, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $10,547 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $3,467 to the doctor who performs it, and $7,079 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 52 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$3,467$2,512 to $5,129
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$7,079$3,388 to $13,183

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7,079 · 10th to 90th $2,089 to $20,893Professionalmedian $3,467 · 10th to 90th $2,042 to $7,586
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $7,079professional $3,467

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,698.24
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$12,022.64
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,677.35
Median
$12,302.69
Typical High
$27,542.29
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$17,378.01
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$380.19
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$10,000.00

What it costs in each state

The same service costs 6.5 times more in Wisconsin than in Maryland. 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

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WI $19,702MD $3,038

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.