# Nerve block injection, other nerve in Columbus, GA

Billing code `64450`. Prices for this code at 5 hospitals within 35 miles of Columbus, 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/columbus/nerve-block-injection-other-nerve

HC ER INJECT NERV BLCK,OTHR PERIPH NERV

**Where this is done matters more than which hospital:** Nerve block injection, other nerve is a procedure a doctor's office can perform, and Medicare pays about 9.4x more for it at a hospital outpatient department than in an office. Every price below is a hospital's, and excludes the doctor's separate bill. Do not quote these as the cost of the procedure without saying which setting they describe.

## 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 facility charge; 1 publish both, mixed together; 3 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lowest reported | $666 |
| Typical | $1,442 |
| Highest reported | $2,593 |

Too few hospitals here for a decile to mean anything, so these are the true extremes and a single unusual figure can set one of them.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Center Barbour | EUFAULA, AL (32.3 mi) | not rated | $666 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,306 | $131 | $2,221 | 45 |
| The East Alabama Healthcare Authority | OPELIKA, AL (28.9 mi) | 3/5 | see split | $1,014 | $97 | $697 | $56 | $1,559 | 70 |
| St Francis Hospital- Emory Healthcare | COLUMBUS (~0 mi) | 3/5 | $1,442 | $1,442 | not mentioned | not published | $56 | $3,137 | 16 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Northside | COLUMBUS (3.3 mi) | 5/5 | $2,490 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,254 | $486 | $3,553 | 19 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown | COLUMBUS (3.3 mi) | 2/5 | $2,593 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,254 | $605 | $3,553 | 20 |

## 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 3 of the 4 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 1 it is higher.

## The doctor's side, roughly

Nationally, Medicare allows about $29 for the clinician who performs or reads this service, across 1,949 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.

2 of these 5 hospitals have not published an updated price file in over a year, or do not say when they last did. Hospitals are required to update at least annually, so those figures may not reflect what they charge now: Medical Center Barbour, The East Alabama Healthcare Authority.

## 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
- [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
- [Lower back spinal injection with imaging guidance](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/lower-back-spinal-injection-with-imaging-guidance) -- 83 hospitals, typically $2,098

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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 2026-04-01 to 2026-07-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.