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Hospital prices, out in the open.

Back spinal fusion (no major complications) in Atlanta, GA460

Spinal Fusion Except Cervical Without Mcc

Across 12 hospitals within 35 miles of Atlanta that publish a negotiated price for this code. Each hospital's figure is the middle of the rates it publishes across its own insurance plans, so the spread within one hospital is often wider than the gap between two. “Cheapest tenth” and “dearest tenth” are the hospitals a tenth of the way in from each end, not the single cheapest and dearest — one hospital publishing a placeholder rate should not set the headline for a whole state. Every hospital, including both extremes, is in the table below. A hospital whose published address is a PO box is placed at its city centre, so a distance shown for it is approximate.

That is a 19-fold difference for the same billing code, between hospitals within 35 miles of each other — a gap between hospitals, not between treatments. It is worth ringing more than one.

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These are prices the hospitals published themselves, as required by the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50). They are the hospital's share only — the surgeon, anesthesiologist and radiologist usually bill separately and do not appear in any hospital file, so treat every figure here as part of a total rather than the total. What you actually pay also depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance.