# Neck spinal fusion (no complications) in Macon, GA

Billing code `473`. Prices for this code at 6 hospitals within 35 miles of Macon, 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/macon/neck-spinal-fusion-no-complications

Cervical Spinal Fusion Without Cc/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, 4 publish a facility charge; 2 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lowest reported | $18,963 |
| Typical | $23,054 |
| Highest reported | $27,628 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Navicent Health Baldwin | MILLEDGEVILLE (26.5 mi) | 2/5 | $18,963 | $18,963 | not mentioned | not published | $18,775 | $41,493 | 11 |
| Piedmont Macon North Hospital | MACON (7.8 mi) | 4/5 | $21,105 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $42,549 | $15,449 | $57,996 | 22 |
| Coliseum Medical Centers | MACON (6.9 mi) | 3/5 | $21,747 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $36,072 | $16,381 | $57,819 | 22 |
| Atrium Health Navicent Peach | BYRON (16.2 mi) | 1/5 | $23,054 | $23,054 | not mentioned | not published | $23,054 | $24,700 | 3 |
| Emory Houston Hospital Warner Robins | WARNER ROBINS (14.3 mi) | 2/5 | $24,414 | $24,414 | not mentioned | not published | $18,031 | $50,256 | 15 |
| Atrium Health Navicent the Medical Center | MACON (3.2 mi) | 2/5 | $27,628 | $27,628 | not mentioned | not published | $20,928 | $54,365 | 21 |

## 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
- [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
- [Back spinal fusion (no major complications)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/back-spinal-fusion-no-major-complications) -- 33 hospitals, typically $38,620

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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 2025-11-19 to 2026-07-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.