Lumbar facet injection cost in Portland, ME
In Portland-South Portland, ME, 5 hospitals list a cash price for facet joint injection, lower back, one level, with imaging guidance: from $893.36 to $2,392.60, with a median of $1,368.00. The lowest listed price is at Mercy Hospital — $474.64 less than the median here. Across Maine, the median is $893.36 at 13 hospitals.
Cash prices at 5 facilities across 4 cities for code 64493, 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.
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 | Insurers pay | Off list | File date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Hospital lowest Portland, ME INJ PARAVERT F JNT L/S 1 LEV | $893.36 | $3,436.00 | $1,834.82–$2,618.23 | 74% | — source file |
| Mercy Hospital lowest Portland, ME CT INJ PARAVERT F JNT L/S 1 LV | $893.36 | $3,436.00 | $1,834.82–$2,618.23 | 74% | — source file |
| MaineHealth Portland, ME · (207) 662-0111 HC FACET LUMB/SACR SINGLE | $971.75 | $971.75 | $714.82–$3,913.75 | — | Sep 9, 2025 source file |
| York Hospital York, ME · (207) 351-2478 IR CT FACET JOINT INJ LUMBAR 64493 | $1,368.00 | $2,280.00 | — | 40% | — source file |
| York Hospital York, ME · (207) 351-2478 SPP FACET INJECT LUMBR/SACRL 64493 | $1,423.80 | $2,373.00 | — | 40% | — source file |
| MaineHealth Brunswick, ME · (207) 729-0181 HC FACET LUMB/SACR SINGLE | $2,257.30 | $2,257.30 | $869.46–$3,109.61 | — | Sep 9, 2025 source file |
| MaineHealth Biddeford, ME HC FACET LUMB/SACR SINGLE | $2,392.60 | $2,392.60 | $861.66–$3,913.75 | — | Sep 9, 2025 source file |
Outpatient: lowest $893.36, median $1,368.00, highest $2,392.60 — a 2.7× difference within the same market.
As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 5 facilities here, median $1,368.00. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.
Cash or insurance?
At 4 of 4 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at 1 it is below every plan's rate. If you have insurance but have not met your deductible, you usually pay your plan's negotiated rate, which falls somewhere in the "Insurers pay" column. Paying cash can cost less, but a cash payment usually does not count toward your deductible. Ask the hospital for both numbers before you book.
What it is
This injection puts numbing medicine or a steroid into or near a facet joint of the lower back, using imaging to guide the needle.
What the price covers
The price usually covers the injection and imaging guidance. The steroid or other medicine may be billed separately.
1 row held back from this comparison
It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 64493 ($1,512.38). 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 PARAVERT F JNT L/S 1 L | $98.02 | file |