Surgery and procedures CPT 64493 Outpatient

Lumbar facet injection cost in Bowman, ND

In Bowman, ND, 1 hospital lists a cash price for facet joint injection, lower back, one level, with imaging guidance: from $1,201.50 to $1,201.50, with a median of $1,201.50. Across North Dakota, the median is $1,299.38 at 12 hospitals.

Cash prices at 1 facility for code 64493, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 27, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between — and —.

Lowest$1,201.50Southwest Healthcare Services
Median$1,201.50half pay less
Highest$1,201.50in this market
Difference1.0×highest vs lowest

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
Southwest Healthcare Services Bowman, ND · (701) 523-6555 INJECT PARAVERTEBRAL FACET W/GUIDE 64493 $1,201.50 $1,335.00 — 10% —
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Outpatient: lowest $1,201.50, median $1,201.50, highest $1,201.50.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $1,201.50. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

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 ($1,482.45). 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.

Southwest Healthcare Services Bowman, NDINJECT PARAVER FACET W/GUIDE 64493 $116.10 file