SelfPayRates — hospital cash prices, from the source

Lower-back nerve root steroid injection, with imaging guidance in Portland-South Portland, ME

Cash prices at 5 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 Sep 9, 2025 and Sep 9, 2025.

HospitalCash price List priceOffFile date
MaineHealth PORTLAND, ME
PR NJX AA&/STRD TFRML EPI LUMBAR/SACRAL 1 LEVEL
$240.45 $240.45 Sep 9, 2025
file
MaineHealth PORTLAND, ME
HC TRANSFORAM L/S SGL
$971.75 $971.75 Sep 9, 2025
file
York Hospital YORK, ME
IR CT NERVE ROOT INJ LUMB SAC 64483
$1,046.40 $1,744.00 40%
file
Mercy Hospital PORTLAND, ME
INJ A/S TRN EPI W IMG L/S SGL
$1,163.24 $4,474.00 74%
file
MaineHealth BIDDEFORD, ME
HC TRANSFORAM L/S SGL
$2,071.80 $2,071.80 Sep 9, 2025
file
MaineHealth BRUNSWICK, ME
HC TRANSFORAM L/S SGL
$2,603.45 $2,603.45 Sep 9, 2025
file

Outpatient: lowest $240.45, median $1,104.82, highest $2,603.45 — a 10.8× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 5 facilities here, median $1,104.82. 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 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.

Mercy Hospital PORTLAND, ME
PF INJ A/S TRN EPI W L/S SGL
$136.76 file

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