SelfPayRates — hospital cash prices, from the source

Lower-back epidural injection, with imaging guidance in Portland-South Portland, ME

Cash prices at 5 facilities across 4 cities for code 62323, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Sep 9, 2025 and Sep 9, 2025.

HospitalCash price List priceOffFile date
MaineHealth PORTLAND, ME
PR NJX DX/THER SBST INTRLMNR LMBR/SAC W/IMG GDN
$219.50 $219.50 Sep 9, 2025
file
Mercy Hospital PORTLAND, ME
NJX INTRLMINR LMBR/SAC W IMAG
$588.38 $2,263.00 74%
file
York Hospital YORK, ME
NJX INTERLAMINAR LMBR/SACRAL W IMAGING
$1,038.60 $1,731.00 40%
file
York Hospital YORK, ME
IR LUMBAR INJECTION THERAPEUTIC
$1,059.60 $1,766.00 40%
file
MaineHealth PORTLAND, ME
HC INJ INTERLAMINAR LMBR/SAC W/ IMG GUIDE
$1,209.85 $1,209.85 Sep 9, 2025
file
MaineHealth BIDDEFORD, ME
HC INJ INTERLAMINAR LMBR/SAC W/ IMG GUIDE
$1,218.20 $1,218.20 Sep 9, 2025
file
MaineHealth BRUNSWICK, ME
HC INJ INTERLAMINAR LMBR/SAC W/ IMG GUIDE
$1,826.80 $1,826.80 Sep 9, 2025
file

Outpatient: lowest $219.50, median $1,059.60, highest $1,826.80 — a 8.3× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 5 facilities here, median $1,059.60. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

1 row held back from this comparison

It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 62323 ($1,181.88). Such a line is almost always a physician's fee billed separately, an assistant's share or a placeholder — a real charge, but not the price of the procedure itself.

Mercy Hospital PORTLAND, ME
PF NJX INTRLMINR LMBR/SAC W
$68.38 file

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