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Surgery and procedures CPT 64483 Outpatient

Nerve root injection cost in Duluth, MN

In Duluth, MN-WI, 11 hospitals list a cash price for lower-back nerve root steroid injection, with imaging guidance: from $894.88 to $1,701.92, with a median of $1,274.46. The lowest listed price is at Aspirus St. Luke’s Hospital — $379.58 less than the median here. Across Minnesota, the median is $1,296.41 at 68 hospitals.

  • The median here, $1,274.46, is 13% below the US median of $1,471.05.
  • That is 1.4× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($903.63).
  • Duluth, MN ranks 2nd of 2 metro areas in Minnesota by median, cheapest first.
  • Every hospital here lists a cash price below its full list price.

Cash prices at 11 facilities across 8 cities for code 64483, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 27, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Jan 1, 2026 and Aug 10, 2026.

Lowest$894.88Aspirus St. Luke’s Hospital
Median$1,274.46half of hospitals charge less
Highest$1,701.92in this market
Difference1.9×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 Duluth, MN-WI.

median
Lowest $894.88Highest $1,701.92
one sideboth sides

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash priceList priceInsurers payOff list
Aspirus St. Luke’s Hospital lowest Duluth, MN · (218) 249-2449 Transfor Epidural L/S Single Lvl-CT File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $894.88 $1,645.00 — 46%
Range Regional Health Services Hibbing, MN · (218) 362-6730 HC INJ TRANSFORAMIN EPIDURAL, LUMB/SACR SINGLE File of Jan 29, 2026 · source file $1,066.67 $2,509.80 $615.67–$2,535.40 57%
Essentia Health Virginia Virginia, MN · (218) 741-3340 INJ,FORAMEN,L/S,1 LEVEL(T) File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file $1,212.67 $1,931.00 $444.13–$1,745.62 37%
The Cook Hospital Cook, MN · (218) 666-5945 TRANSFORMNL EPIDURAL LUMB/SACR File of Aug 10, 2026 · source file $1,249.38 $1,893.00 — 34%
Community Memorial Hospital Cloquet, MN · (218) 879-4641 MDA INJ FORAMEN EPIDURAL L/S File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $1,270.08 $1,984.50 $1,984.50 36%
Essentia Health St. Mary's Children's Hospital Duluth, MN INJ,FORAMEN,L/S,1 LEVEL(T) File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file $1,274.46 $1,931.00 $639.16–$1,660.66 34%
Essentia Health Duluth Duluth, MN · (218) 786-2652 INJ,FORAMEN,L/S,1 LEVEL(T) File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file $1,274.46 $1,931.00 $639.16–$1,660.66 34%
Essentia Health St. Mary's Medical Center Duluth, MN · (218) 786-3574 INJ,FORAMEN,L/S,1 LEVEL(T) File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file $1,274.46 $1,931.00 $639.16–$1,660.66 34%
Essentia Health Moose Lake Moose Lake, MN · (218) 786-1367 INJ,FORAMEN,L/S,1 LEVEL(T) File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file $1,701.92 $2,303.00 $916.59–$2,084.22 26%
Essentia Health St Marys Hospital-Superior Superior, WI · (715) 817-7000 INJ,FORAMEN,L/S,1 LEVEL(T) File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file $1,701.92 $2,303.00 $736.96–$2,084.22 26%
Essentia Health Northern Pines Aurora, MN · (218) 229-4222 INJ,FORAMEN,L/S,1 LEVEL(T) File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file $1,701.92 $2,303.00 $884.12–$2,303.00 26%
Aspirus St. Luke’s Hospital both sides Duluth, MN · (218) 249-2449 Transfor Epidural L/S Single Lvl-CT|TECHNICAL COMPONENT|BILATERAL PROCEDURE+2 more lines at this price File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $1,342.32 $2,467.50 — 46%
Hospital The hospital that published the price, its city and the line exactly as written in its price file.
Cash price The hospital's own price for a patient paying without insurance (“discounted cash” in its price file). Hospitals must publish it under federal law, 45 CFR 180.50. Call to confirm it before booking. More
List price The hospital's full chargemaster price (“gross charge”) before any discount. Almost nobody pays it; the gap to the cash price shows what the self-pay discount is worth. More
Insurers pay The lowest and highest rates this hospital has agreed with insurance plans for the same item, from its price file. If the cash price is below what your plan pays and you have not met your deductible, paying cash can cost you less. More
Off list How much lower the cash price is than the list price.
At or below Medicare This cash price is at or below what Medicare pays a hospital for the same service, which is unusually low. It is what the hospital's file says; confirm it and what it includes before booking. More

Outpatient: lowest $894.88, median $1,274.46, highest $1,701.92 — a 1.9× difference within the same market.

Both sides : lowest $1,342.32, median $1,342.32, highest $1,342.32.

The two groups are not comparable and are not averaged together: a price for both sides of the body covers twice the work. Merging them is how a single published "median" ends up far above what one side actually costs.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 4 facilities here, median $1,160.56. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

Cash or insurance?

At 9 of 9 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at 1 it is below every plan's rate. If you have insurance but have not met your deductible, you usually pay your plan's negotiated rate, which falls somewhere in the "Insurers pay" column. Paying cash can cost less, but a cash payment usually does not count toward your deductible. Ask the hospital for both numbers before you book.

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