Lower-back nerve root steroid injection, with imaging guidance in Portland-South Portland, ME — inpatient
In Portland-South Portland, ME, 5 hospitals list a cash price for Lower-back nerve root steroid injection, with imaging guidance as an inpatient: from $240.45 to $2,603.45, with a median of $1,104.82. The lowest listed price is at MaineHealth.
Cash prices at 5 facilities across 4 cities for code 64483, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Sep 9, 2025 and Sep 9, 2025.
Where each hospital's price falls
Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Portland-South Portland, ME.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Off list | File date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MaineHealth lowest Portland, ME PR NJX AA&/STRD TFRML EPI LUMBAR/SACRAL 1 LEVEL | $240.45 | $240.45 | — | Sep 9, 2025 source file |
| MaineHealth Portland, ME HC TRANSFORAM L/S SGL | $971.75 | $971.75 | — | Sep 9, 2025 source file |
| York Hospital York, ME IR CT NERVE ROOT INJ LUMB SAC 64483 | $1,046.40 | $1,744.00 | 40% | — source file |
| Mercy Hospital Portland, ME INJ A/S TRN EPI W IMG L/S SGL | $1,163.24 | $4,474.00 | 74% | — source file |
| MaineHealth Biddeford, ME HC TRANSFORAM L/S SGL | $2,071.80 | $2,071.80 | — | Sep 9, 2025 source file |
| MaineHealth Brunswick, ME HC TRANSFORAM L/S SGL | $2,603.45 | $2,603.45 | — | Sep 9, 2025 source file |
Inpatient: lowest $240.45, median $1,104.82, highest $2,603.45 — a 10.8× difference within the same market.
As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 5 facilities here, median $1,104.82 — that is the price to compare if you are not being admitted.
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.
| Mercy Hospital Portland, MEPF INJ A/S TRN EPI W L/S SGL | $136.76 | file |