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Spinal Cord Stimulator Lead Placement

Missouri rates for HCPCS 63650

A thin wire electrode is inserted through the skin and guided into the space around the spinal cord, without open surgery, to deliver mild electrical pulses that can help reduce chronic pain signals. It's often placed first as a trial before a permanent device is implanted.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Spinal Cord Stimulator Lead Placement cost?

$4,782

Typical total for the visit. In Missouri, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,782 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $708 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,074 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$708$427 to $2,239
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,074$2,188 to $10,471

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,074 · 10th to 90th $676 to $20,417Professionalmedian $708 · 10th to 90th $347 to $3,467
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20K$50Kfacility $4,074professional $708

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
$1,096.48
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$467.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$3,467.37
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$2,630.27
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$10,471.29
Typical High
$40,738.03
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$812.83
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$3,090.30
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$12,302.69
Typical High
$21,877.62
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$3,388.44
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$11,481.54
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$380.19
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$16,982.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,818.38
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$11,748.98
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$3,388.44

Where Missouri sits

The same service costs 7.0 times more in Wisconsin than in Mississippi. 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

Missouri· 21st of 50

$4,782

$708 physician + $4,074 facility

WI $16,270MS $2,318

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.