Surgery and procedures CPT 20552 Outpatient

Trigger point injection cost in Columbus, NC

In Columbus, NC, 1 hospital lists a cash price for trigger point injections, 1 or 2 muscles: from $196.46 to $196.46, with a median of $196.46. Across North Carolina, the median is $517.23 at 36 hospitals.

Cash prices at 1 facility for code 20552, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Apr 1, 2026 and Apr 1, 2026.

Lowest$196.46AdventHealth Polk
Median$196.46half pay less
Highest$196.46in this market
Difference1.0×highest vs lowest

Where each hospital's price falls

Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Columbus, NC.

median
Lowest $196.46Highest $489.72

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
AdventHealth Polk lowest Columbus, NC · (828) 894-3311 HC CAH II INJECT TRIGGER POINT, 1 OR 2 $196.46 $196.46 — — Apr 1, 2026
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AdventHealth Polk Columbus, NC · (828) 894-3311 HC INJECT TRIGGER POINT, 1 OR 2 $489.72 $489.72 — — Apr 1, 2026
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Outpatient: lowest $196.46, median $196.46, highest $196.46.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $196.46. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

What it is

Trigger point injections put a numbing medicine, sometimes with a steroid, into tight knots in one or two muscles.

What the price covers

The price usually covers the injection. The steroid or other medicine may be billed separately.