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Spinal Cord Surgery To Cut Pain Pathways On Both Sides

Alabama rates for HCPCS 63197

Surgery to relieve severe pain that medicine can no longer control, most often from advanced cancer. Bone at the back of the spine in the mid-back is removed so the surgeon can reach the spinal cord and divide the pain-carrying pathways on both sides, all in a single operation. Because both pathways are cut, relief is felt on both sides of the body below the level treated.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Spinal Cord Surgery To Cut Pain Pathways On Both Sides cost?

$1,950

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,950 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,738 from a physician practice, and about $3,802 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$1,738$1,514 to $2,570
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3,802$1,318 to $20,893

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,802 · 10th to 90th $813 to $25,704Professionalmedian $1,738 · 10th to 90th $1,445 to $4,074
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $3,802professional $1,738

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
$954.99
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,630.27
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$5,011.87
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18,197.01
Median
$21,877.62
Typical High
$28,840.32
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,548.82
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$2,691.53
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11,748.98
Median
$11,748.98
Typical High
$11,748.98
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$3,090.30
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$5,248.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$2,884.03

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 4.6 times more in California than in Kentucky. 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.

Alabama· 37th of 51

$1,950

CA $7,413KY $1,622

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.