SelfPayRates — hospital cash prices, from the source

Lower-back nerve root steroid injection, with imaging guidance in Joplin, MO-KS

Cash prices at 4 facilities across 4 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 May 1, 2025 and May 1, 2025.

HospitalCash price List priceOffFile date
Mercy Hospital Carthage CARTHAGE, MO
Inj Epi/Lumb/Sacral Sngl Level Pf
$843.05 $1,297.00 35%
file
Freeman Neosho Hospital NEOSHO, MO
LUMBAR OR SACRAL SINGLE
$873.60 $1,456.00 40% May 1, 2025
file
Mercy Hospital Carthage CARTHAGE, MO
Hchg Inj Epi/Lumb/Sacral Sngl Level Bil Pf
$1,265.55 $1,947.00 35%
file
Mercy Hospital Carthage CARTHAGE, MO
Inj Epi/Lumb/Sacral Sngl Level
$1,539.20 $2,368.00 35%
file
Mercy Hospital Joplin dba Mercy Hospital Joplin JOPLIN, MO
Inj Epi/Lumb/Sacral Sngl Level
$2,738.45 $4,213.00 35%
file
Mercy Specialty Hospital Southeast Kansas GALENA, KS
Inj Transforminal Epi/Lumb/Sacral Sngl Level
$2,866.49 $4,409.98 35%
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Mercy Hospital Joplin dba Mercy Hospital Joplin JOPLIN, MO
Inj Transforminal Epi/Lumb/Sacral Sngl Level
$3,066.70 $4,718.00 35%
file
Mercy Hospital Carthage CARTHAGE, MO
Inj Transforminal Epi/Lumb/Sacral Sngl Level
$3,488.38 $5,366.74 35%
file
Mercy Hospital Carthage CARTHAGE, MO
Bilat Inj Epi/Lumb/Sacral Sngl Level
both sides $2,167.75 $3,335.00 35%
file
Mercy Specialty Hospital Southeast Kansas GALENA, KS
Bilat Inj Epi/Lumb/Sacral Sngl Level
both sides $2,530.45 $3,893.00 35%
file
Mercy Hospital Joplin dba Mercy Hospital Joplin JOPLIN, MO
Bilat Inj Epi/Lumb/Sacral Sngl Level
both sides $3,066.70 $4,718.00 35%
file

Both sides : lowest $2,167.75, median $2,530.45, highest $3,066.70 — a 1.4× difference within the same market.

Outpatient: lowest $843.05, median $2,138.83, highest $3,488.38 — a 4.1× difference within the same market.

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 1 facility here, median $873.60. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

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