# Back spinal fusion (no major complications) in GA

Billing code `460`. Prices for this code at 33 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/back-spinal-fusion-no-major-complications

Spinal Fusion Except Cervical Without Mcc

## 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, 23 publish a facility charge; 10 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $6,294 |
| Typical | $38,620 |
| Dearest tenth | $120,566 |

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 19-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE | 3/5 | $6,294 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $82,585 | 91 |
| Northside Hospital Cherokee | CANTON | 4/5 | $6,294 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $82,585 | 92 |
| Northside Hospital Duluth | DULUTH | 4/5 | $6,294 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $82,585 | 93 |
| Northside Hospital | ATLANTA | 3/5 | $6,294 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $82,585 | 92 |
| Northside Hospital Forsyth | CUMMING | 4/5 | $6,294 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $82,585 | 91 |
| Piedmont Augusta Hospital | AUGUSTA | 2/5 | $8,070 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $9,655 | $8,070 | $8,070 | 1 |
| Candler Hospital | SAVANNAH | 2/5 | $12,833 | $12,833 | not mentioned | not published | $7,175 | $20,693 | 3 |
| Grady Memorial Hospital | ATLANTA | 2/5 | $18,075 | $18,075 | not mentioned | not published | $3,500 | $32,649 | 2 |
| Blue Ridge Medical Center | BLUE RIDGE | not rated | $21,045 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $4,373 | $24,984 | 75 |
| Southwell Medical, a Campus of TRMC | ADEL | not rated | $23,129 | $23,129 | not mentioned | not published | $1,111 | $79,729 | 16 |
| East Georgia Regional Medical Center | STATESBORO | 3/5 | $25,336 | $25,336 | not mentioned | not published | $900 | $49,615 | 21 |
| Coffee Regional Medical Center | DOUGLAS | 3/5 | $27,927 | $27,927 | not mentioned | not published | $26,100 | $66,494 | 19 |
| Tift Regional Medical Center | TIFTON | 3/5 | $28,034 | $28,034 | not mentioned | not published | $1,111 | $79,729 | 16 |
| AdventHealth Redmond | ROME | 4/5 | $29,770 | $29,770 | not mentioned | not published | $29,770 | $29,770 | 1 |
| St Joseph's Hospital - Savannah | SAVANNAH | 2/5 | $29,841 | $29,841 | not mentioned | not published | $7,175 | $61,797 | 9 |
| Southern Regional Medical Center | RIVERDALE | 1/5 | $35,143 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $32,244 | $49,675 | 15 |
| Chi Memorial Hospital- Georgia | RINGGOLD | 3/5 | $38,620 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $20,782 | $48,532 | 5 |
| Phoebe Sumter Medical Center | AMERICUS | 3/5 | $44,547 | $44,547 | not mentioned | not published | $44,547 | $44,547 | 1 |
| NGMC Barrow | WINDER | 4/5 | $53,327 | $53,327 | not mentioned | not published | $53,327 | $59,921 | 3 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center Habersham | DEMOREST | 3/5 | $53,327 | $53,327 | not mentioned | not published | $53,327 | $56,528 | 4 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center Lumpkin | DAHLONEGA | 5/5 | $53,327 | $53,327 | not mentioned | not published | $53,327 | $53,327 | 3 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center | GAINESVILLE | 3/5 | $56,528 | $56,528 | not mentioned | not published | $53,327 | $80,766 | 10 |
| Hamilton Medical Center | DALTON | 3/5 | $95,105 | $95,105 | not mentioned | not published | $95,105 | $95,105 | 1 |
| WellStar MCG Health, Affiliated with Med Col | AUGUSTA | 1/5 | $100,420 | $100,420 | not mentioned | not published | $53,507 | $146,696 | 6 |
| Colquitt Regional Medical Center | MOULTRIE | 4/5 | $104,899 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $104,899 | $92,311 | $104,899 | 21 |
| WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center | MARIETTA | 4/5 | $112,788 | $112,788 | not mentioned | not published | $97,231 | $146,696 | 7 |
| WellStar North Fulton Medical Center | ROSWELL | 2/5 | $112,788 | $112,788 | not mentioned | not published | $97,231 | $146,696 | 7 |
| WellStar Cobb Medical Center | AUSTELL | 3/5 | $112,788 | $112,788 | not mentioned | not published | $97,231 | $146,696 | 7 |
| WellStar Sylvan Grove Medical Center | JACKSON | not rated | $120,566 | $120,566 | not mentioned | not published | $97,231 | $146,696 | 6 |
| WellStar Douglas Medical Center | DOUGLASVILLE | 3/5 | $120,566 | $120,566 | not mentioned | not published | $97,231 | $146,696 | 6 |
| WellStar Spalding Medical Center | GRIFFIN | 2/5 | $120,566 | $120,566 | not mentioned | not published | $97,231 | $146,696 | 6 |
| WellStar Paulding Medical Center | HIRAM | 4/5 | $120,566 | $120,566 | not mentioned | not published | $97,231 | $146,696 | 6 |
| WellStar West Georgia Medical Center | LAGRANGE | 5/5 | $128,345 | $128,345 | not mentioned | not published | $97,231 | $146,696 | 5 |

## 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 all 2 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is HIGHER than what that hospital typically accepts from an insurer. Self-pay is not automatically the cheaper option.

## Others in inpatient stays (drg)

- [Hip or knee replacement (no major complications)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/hip-or-knee-replacement-no-major-complications) -- 85 hospitals, typically $17,003
- [Uterus or ovary surgery, non-cancer (no complications)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/uterus-or-ovary-surgery-non-cancer-no-complications) -- 84 hospitals, typically $11,778
- [Neck spinal fusion (no complications)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/neck-spinal-fusion-no-complications) -- 80 hospitals, typically $21,105
- [Heart valve surgery with cardiac catheterisation (with major complications)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/heart-valve-surgery-with-cardiac-catheterisation-with-major) -- 77 hospitals, typically $76,817

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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 2026-01-01 to 2026-07-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.