# Abdominal wall nerve block (TAP block) in GA

Billing code `64488`. Prices for this code at 59 hospitals in GA, taken from the machine-readable standard charge files each hospital is required to publish under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50).

Source page: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/abdominal-wall-nerve-block-tap-block

Tap block bi injection

## Before quoting any figure below

- **Hospital charges only.** The surgeon, anaesthetist, radiologist and pathologist bill separately and appear in no hospital price file, by construction. Every figure below is part of a total, never the total.
- **A negotiated rate is not a bill.** It is what a hospital and an insurer agreed. What a patient owes depends on their deductible, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum.
- **Each hospital's figure is a median across its own plans.** The spread inside one hospital is often wider than the gap between two of them.
- **"not mentioned" is not $0.** It means this hospital's file does not label a row that way. Silence is not a statement that the charge does not exist.
- **A hospital absent from the table says nothing about its prices.** It may publish this code under a revenue or drug code this site cannot map to a procedure.

A procedure code is billed twice -- once by the hospital for its own costs, once by the doctor for their work -- and hospitals publish different sides of that split under the same code. Of the hospitals here, 1 publish a physician fee; 23 publish a facility charge; 3 publish both, mixed together; 32 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $1,117 |
| Typical | $3,690 |
| Dearest tenth | $7,088 |

The cheapest and dearest tenth are the hospitals a tenth of the way in from each end, not the single cheapest and dearest. Every hospital, including both extremes, is in the table below.

That is a 6-fold difference for the same billing code -- a gap between hospitals, not between treatments.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Navicent Peach | BYRON | 1/5 | $68 | not mentioned | $68 | not published | $66 | $266 | 15 |
| Grady Memorial Hospital | ATLANTA | 2/5 | see split | $3,214 | $123 | $6,097 | $59 | $4,878 | 68 |
| Chi Memorial Hospital- Georgia | RINGGOLD | 3/5 | $211 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $77 | $39 | $3,196 | 16 |
| Union General Hospital | BLAIRSVILLE | 3/5 | $802 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $593 | $165 | $1,008 | 26 |
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center | ROME | 2/5 | $847 | $847 | not mentioned | $996 | $114 | $8,343 | 38 |
| Atrium Health Navicent the Medical Center | MACON | 2/5 | see split | $3,914 | $59 | $3,010 | $58 | $5,756 | 48 |
| Colquitt Regional Medical Center | MOULTRIE | 4/5 | $1,137 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,137 | $138 | $1,137 | 44 |
| WellStar MCG Health, Affiliated with Med Col | AUGUSTA | 1/5 | $1,510 | $1,510 | not mentioned | $3,544 | $693 | $4,714 | 4 |
| St Francis Hospital- Emory Healthcare | COLUMBUS | 3/5 | $1,630 | $1,630 | not mentioned | not published | $98 | $1,804 | 4 |
| Candler Hospital | SAVANNAH | 2/5 | $1,796 | $1,796 | not mentioned | not published | $1,613 | $3,205 | 9 |
| St Joseph's Hospital - Savannah | SAVANNAH | 2/5 | $1,796 | $1,796 | not mentioned | not published | $1,613 | $3,205 | 9 |
| Navicent Health Baldwin | MILLEDGEVILLE | 2/5 | see split | $4,636 | $59 | $3,050 | $58 | $5,479 | 49 |
| AdventHealth Redmond | ROME | 4/5 | $1,878 | $1,878 | not mentioned | not published | $1,277 | $3,043 | 4 |
| Emory Hillandale Hospital | LITHONIA | 1/5 | $2,076 | $2,076 | not mentioned | $6,616 | $1,343 | $3,295 | 4 |
| Southern Regional Medical Center | RIVERDALE | 1/5 | $2,297 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $2,297 | $2,297 | 2 |
| Emory Houston Hospital Warner Robins | WARNER ROBINS | 2/5 | $2,438 | $2,438 | not mentioned | not published | $1,580 | $3,295 | 2 |
| Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta | ATLANTA | 3/5 | $2,572 | $2,572 | not mentioned | $6,616 | $1,343 | $3,826 | 5 |
| Emory University Hospital | ATLANTA | 4/5 | $2,572 | $2,572 | not mentioned | $6,616 | $1,343 | $3,826 | 5 |
| Emory University Hospital Midtown | ATLANTA | 2/5 | $2,572 | $2,572 | not mentioned | $6,616 | $1,343 | $3,826 | 5 |
| Emory Johns Creek Hospital | JOHNS CREEK | 4/5 | $2,572 | $2,572 | not mentioned | $6,616 | $1,343 | $3,826 | 5 |
| Emory Decatur Hospital | DECATUR | 2/5 | $2,572 | $2,572 | not mentioned | $6,616 | $1,343 | $3,826 | 5 |
| Piedmont Eastside Medical Center | SNELLVILLE | 2/5 | $3,127 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,301 | $1,236 | $6,902 | 13 |
| Piedmont Newton Hospital | COVINGTON | 3/5 | $3,127 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,991 | $708 | $8,474 | 13 |
| Coliseum Medical Centers | MACON | 3/5 | $3,127 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,301 | $525 | $6,902 | 13 |
| Piedmont Macon North Hospital | MACON | 4/5 | $3,127 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,301 | $706 | $6,902 | 13 |
| Doctors Hospital | AUGUSTA | 3/5 | $3,132 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $7,512 | 137 |
| Memorial Health University Medical Center | SAVANNAH | 1/5 | $3,442 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $7,512 | 112 |
| Memorial Satilla Health | WAYCROSS | 3/5 | $3,633 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $7,512 | 120 |
| Fairview Park Hospital | DUBLIN | 4/5 | $3,633 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $7,512 | 137 |
| WellStar North Fulton Medical Center | ROSWELL | 2/5 | $3,690 | $3,690 | not mentioned | $3,544 | $2,665 | $4,714 | 2 |
| WellStar Paulding Medical Center | HIRAM | 4/5 | $3,690 | $3,690 | not mentioned | $3,544 | $2,665 | $4,714 | 2 |
| WellStar Sylvan Grove Medical Center | JACKSON | not rated | $3,690 | $3,690 | not mentioned | $3,544 | $2,665 | $4,714 | 2 |
| WellStar West Georgia Medical Center | LAGRANGE | 5/5 | $3,690 | $3,690 | not mentioned | $3,544 | $2,665 | $4,714 | 2 |
| WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center | MARIETTA | 4/5 | $3,690 | $3,690 | not mentioned | $3,544 | $2,665 | $4,714 | 2 |
| WellStar Cobb Medical Center | AUSTELL | 3/5 | $3,690 | $3,690 | not mentioned | $3,544 | $2,665 | $4,714 | 2 |
| WellStar Spalding Medical Center | GRIFFIN | 2/5 | $3,690 | $3,690 | not mentioned | $3,544 | $2,665 | $4,714 | 2 |
| WellStar Douglas Medical Center | DOUGLASVILLE | 3/5 | $3,690 | $3,690 | not mentioned | $3,544 | $2,665 | $4,714 | 2 |
| Hamilton Medical Center | DALTON | 3/5 | $3,795 | $3,795 | not mentioned | not published | $2,288 | $5,302 | 2 |
| Memorial Health Meadows Hospital | VIDALIA | 5/5 | $4,384 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $17,850 | 91 |
| Taylor Regional Hospital | HAWKINSVILLE | not rated | $4,457 | $4,457 | not mentioned | $23,925 | $2,462 | $8,989 | 11 |
| Piedmont Rockdale Hospital | CONYERS | 3/5 | $4,518 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,991 | $1,200 | $7,883 | 14 |
| Piedmont Cartersville Medical Center | CARTERSVILLE | 3/5 | $4,804 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,991 | $1,174 | $8,973 | 14 |
| Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center | ATHENS | 4/5 | $4,842 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,991 | $1,061 | $8,175 | 14 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown | COLUMBUS | 2/5 | $4,926 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,306 | $1,111 | $7,687 | 13 |
| Piedmont Newnan Hospital | NEWNAN | 4/5 | $5,053 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,991 | $939 | $9,272 | 14 |
| Piedmont Henry Hospital | STOCKBRIDGE | 2/5 | $5,053 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,991 | $845 | $8,474 | 14 |
| Piedmont Hospital | ATLANTA | 4/5 | $5,053 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,991 | $708 | $8,474 | 14 |
| Piedmont Fayette Hospital | FAYETTEVILLE | 3/5 | $5,053 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,991 | $708 | $8,474 | 14 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Northside | COLUMBUS | 5/5 | $5,265 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,306 | $894 | $7,687 | 12 |
| Washington County Regional Medical Center | SANDERSVILLE | not rated | $5,344 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $3,817 | $659 | $6,337 | 18 |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite | ATLANTA | not rated | $6,595 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $9,621 | $4,022 | $9,621 | 28 |
| Athur M Blank Hospital | ATLANTA | not rated | $6,595 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $9,621 | $4,112 | $9,621 | 28 |
| Piedmont Walton Hospital | MONROE | 4/5 | $7,088 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,991 | $708 | $8,973 | 13 |
| Piedmont Mountainside Hospital | JASPER | 4/5 | $7,088 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,991 | $1,083 | $8,474 | 13 |
| Northside Hospital Forsyth | CUMMING | 4/5 | $7,181 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $50 | $50,000 | 47 |
| Northside Hospital Cherokee | CANTON | 4/5 | $7,683 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $50 | $50,000 | 48 |
| Northside Hospital Duluth | DULUTH | 4/5 | $8,236 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $50 | $50,000 | 52 |
| Northside Hospital | ATLANTA | 3/5 | $9,085 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $50 | $50,000 | 47 |
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE | 3/5 | $9,113 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $50 | $50,000 | 52 |

## Self-pay

Self-pay is what the hospital charges someone paying themselves rather than through insurance. Paying self-pay usually does not count toward a deductible, so it can cost less for one service and more across a year. Every other figure here is what an insurer pays, not what a patient would.

At 26 of the 41 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 15 it is higher.

## The doctor's side, roughly

Nationally, Medicare allows about $65 for the clinician who performs or reads this service, across 1,263 billing providers in 2024. That is a separate bill from everything above and is NOT added to any figure on this page -- it is here to show the rough size of what a hospital price leaves out.

## Others in neurology & pain management

- [Spinal tap (lumbar puncture), diagnostic](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/spinal-tap-lumbar-puncture-diagnostic) -- 104 hospitals, typically $1,246
- [Nerve block injection, other nerve](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/nerve-block-injection-other-nerve) -- 99 hospitals, typically $1,326
- [Femoral nerve block injection](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/femoral-nerve-block-injection) -- 89 hospitals, typically $1,681
- [Lower back nerve root injection](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/lower-back-nerve-root-injection) -- 89 hospitals, typically $1,707
- [Lower back facet joint injection](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/lower-back-facet-joint-injection) -- 88 hospitals, typically $1,945
- [Sleep study (polysomnography)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/sleep-study-polysomnography) -- 87 hospitals, typically $1,535
- [Sleep study with CPAP titration](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/sleep-study-with-cpap-titration) -- 87 hospitals, typically $1,490
- [Brain wave test (EEG), awake and drowsy](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/brain-wave-test-eeg-awake-and-drowsy) -- 86 hospitals, typically $368

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Every procedure with a published price in GA: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga
Prices that look wrong: info@clearcharge.org

Compiled by Clearcharge (clearcharge.org) from each hospital's machine-readable standard-charge file. When quoting a figure, cite the source page above. The hospital files behind these figures state data through dates from 2025-11-19 to 2026-07-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.