Surgery and procedures CPT 64483 Inpatient — admitted to hospital

Lower-back nerve root steroid injection, with imaging guidance in Cedar Rapids, IA — inpatient

In Cedar Rapids, IA, 1 hospital lists a cash price for Lower-back nerve root steroid injection, with imaging guidance as an inpatient: from $582.40 to $3,013.04, with a median of $1,797.72.

Cash prices at 1 facility for code 64483, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Jan 28, 2026 and Jan 28, 2026.

Lowest$582.40St Luke's Methodist Hospital
Median$1,797.72half pay less
Highest$3,013.04in this market
Difference5.2×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 Cedar Rapids, IA.

median
Lowest $582.40Highest $6,026.07
one sideboth sides

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceOff listFile date
St Luke's Methodist Hospital lowest Cedar Rapids, IA PR NJX AA&/STRD TFRML EPI LUMBAR/SACRAL 1 LEVEL $582.40 $728.00 20% Jan 28, 2026
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St Luke's Methodist Hospital Cedar Rapids, IA HC INJ(S) FORAMEN EPIDURAL L/S SGL LEV $3,013.04 $3,766.29 20% Jan 28, 2026
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St Luke's Methodist Hospital both sides Cedar Rapids, IA HC INJ(S) FORAMEN EPID L/S SGL LEV BILAT $6,026.07 $7,532.58 20% Jan 28, 2026
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Both sides : lowest $6,026.07, median $6,026.07, highest $6,026.07.

Inpatient: lowest $582.40, median $1,797.72, highest $3,013.04 — a 5.2× 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 outpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $6,026.07 — that is the price to compare if you are not being admitted.

As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $1,797.72 — 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.