Surgery and procedures CPT 64493 Outpatient

Lumbar facet injection cost in Buckhannon, WV

In Buckhannon, WV, 1 hospital lists a cash price for facet joint injection, lower back, one level, with imaging guidance: from $676.00 to $676.00, with a median of $676.00. Across West Virginia, the median is $1,017.00 at 15 hospitals.

Cash prices at 1 facility 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 — and —.

Lowest$676.00St. Joseph's Hospital of Buckhannon
Median$676.00half pay less
Highest$676.00in this market
Difference1.0×highest vs lowest

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
St. Joseph's Hospital of Buckhannon Buckhannon, WV · (304) 472-2000 INJECTION OF LOWER OR SACRAL SPINE FACET JOINT USING IMAGING GUIDANCE; SINGLE LEVEL $676.00 $1,352.00 — 50% —
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Outpatient: lowest $676.00, median $676.00, highest $676.00.

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.

St. Joseph's Hospital of Buckhannon Buckhannon, WVINJ PARAVERT F JNT L/S 1 LEV $97.50 file