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CT scan, lower back spine, with contrast — Augusta, GA (code 72132)
5 hospitals reporting, within 35 miles of Augusta · printed
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CT scan, lower back spine, with contrast in Augusta, GA72132

Name: CT scan, lower back spine, with contrast — hospital prices in GA
Creator: Clearcharge

HC CT SCAN LUMBAR SP CONTRAST - CT LUMBAR SPINE W CONTRAST

Lowest reported

$276

Typical

$995

Highest reported

$1,608

Across 5 hospitals within 35 miles of Augusta 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. A hospital whose published address is a PO box is placed at its city centre, so a distance shown for it is approximate.

Hospital	Typical	Hospital’s own chargefacility	Doctor’s chargeprofessional	Self-paycash price	Lowest	Highest	Plans on file
Doctors Hospital AUGUSTA · 5.1 mi · ★3/5	$276	not mentioned	not mentioned	$10,298	$82	$9,268	201
WellStar MCG Health, Affiliated with Med Col AUGUSTA · 2.2 mi · ★1/5 Facility fee only	$439	$439	not mentioned	$1,705	$306	$1,112	20
Piedmont Augusta Hospital AUGUSTA · 2.6 mi · ★2/5	$995	not mentioned	not mentioned	$807	$447	$2,420	21
University Mcduffie County Regional Medical Center THOMSON · 30.0 mi · not rated	$1,033	not mentioned	not mentioned	$807	$434	$2,420	16
Aiken Regional Medical Center AIKEN, SC · 20.3 mi · ★2/5	$1,608	not mentioned	not mentioned	$3,464	$370	$7,362	12

Self-pay is what the hospital charges someone paying themselves rather than through insurance — the number to use if you have no coverage, or if this hospital is out of network. Paying self-pay usually doesn’t count toward your deductible, so it can cost less for this one service and more across a full year, if you’d have met your deductible anyway. Every other figure here is what an insurer pays, not what you would.

At 2 of the 5 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price, it is lower than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer — so it is worth asking for, in writing, at those. At the other 3 it is higher. Either way it is worth asking whether you qualify for financial assistance, which is a different thing and often a much larger discount.

The doctor’s side, roughly. Nationally, Medicare allows about $54 for the clinician who performs or reads this service, across 1,390 billing providers in 2024. That is a separate bill from everything above, and it is not added to any figure on this page — it is a Medicare average, not this hospital’s charge and not your plan’s rate, so combining them would produce a total no source states. It is here to show the rough size of what a hospital price leaves out.

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1 of these 5 hospitals has not published an updated price file in over a year, or does not say when they last did. Hospitals are required to update at least annually, so those figures may not reflect what they charge now: Aiken Regional Medical Center.

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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.