Lower-back nerve root steroid injection, with imaging guidance in Fort Wayne, IN
In Fort Wayne, IN, 4 hospitals list a cash price for Lower-back nerve root steroid injection, with imaging guidance: from $169.20 to $5,280.57, with a median of $1,031.94. The lowest listed price is at IOM Health System LP.
Cash prices at 4 facilities across 2 cities for code 64483, 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.
Where each hospital's price falls
Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Fort Wayne, IN.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Off list | File date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IOM Health System LP lowest Fort Wayne, IN 64483 Lumbar Transforaminal, First level | $169.20 | $564.00 | 70% | Apr 1, 2026 source file |
| Bluffton Health System LLC Bluffton, IN 64483, 50 Lumbar Transforaminal, First level | $203.04 | $846.00 | 76% | Apr 1, 2026 source file |
| IOM Health System LP Fort Wayne, IN 64483, 50 Lumbar Transforaminal, First level | $253.80 | $846.00 | 70% | Apr 1, 2026 source file |
| Dupont Hospital LLC Fort Wayne, IN IR-Transepi INJ L S - BCE | $1,031.94 | $3,822.00 | 73% | Apr 1, 2026 source file |
| IOM Health System LP Fort Wayne, IN IR-Transepi INJ L S - BCE | $1,160.40 | $3,868.00 | 70% | Apr 1, 2026 source file |
| Lutheran Musculoskeletal Center LLC Fort Wayne, IN INJ FORAMEN EPIDURAL L/S | $4,786.40 | $17,727.41 | 73% | Apr 1, 2026 source file |
| Dupont Hospital LLC Fort Wayne, IN INJ FORAMEN EPIDURAL L/S | $5,280.57 | $19,557.67 | 73% | Apr 1, 2026 source file |
Outpatient: lowest $169.20, median $1,031.94, highest $5,280.57 — a 31.2× difference within the same market.
As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 3 facilities here, median $387.75. 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
A transforaminal epidural injection places steroid and numbing medicine near a specific nerve root in the lower back, using X-ray or CT guidance. It is used for pain that travels down the leg (sciatica). This code covers one spinal level.
What the price covers
The price covers the injection at one level with imaging guidance. Each additional level is billed with an add-on code (64484), and the doctor's fee and medicine may be separate.
1 row held back from this comparison
It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 64483 ($1,505.00). 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.
| Bluffton Health System LLC Bluffton, IN64483 Lumbar Transforaminal, First level | $135.36 | file |