# Neck spinal fusion (no complications) in GA

Billing code `473`. Prices for this code at 80 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/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, 47 publish a facility charge; 33 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $13,129 |
| Typical | $21,105 |
| Dearest tenth | $32,656 |

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 2-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Georgia Specialty Hospital | ALBANY | not rated | $1,661 | $1,661 | not mentioned | not published | $1,661 | $1,661 | 2 |
| Optim Medical Center - Screven | SYLVANIA | not rated | $2,012 | $2,012 | not mentioned | not published | $2,012 | $2,665 | 7 |
| Northside Hospital Forsyth | CUMMING | 4/5 | $6,294 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $46,777 | 91 |
| Northside Hospital Duluth | DULUTH | 4/5 | $6,294 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $46,777 | 93 |
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE | 3/5 | $6,294 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $46,777 | 91 |
| Northside Hospital Cherokee | CANTON | 4/5 | $6,294 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $46,777 | 92 |
| Northside Hospital | ATLANTA | 3/5 | $6,294 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $46,777 | 92 |
| Optim Medical Center - Tattnall | REIDSVILLE | not rated | $11,704 | $11,704 | not mentioned | not published | $11,041 | $28,297 | 6 |
| Blue Ridge Medical Center | BLUE RIDGE | not rated | $13,288 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $3,839 | $15,897 | 75 |
| Southwell Medical, a Campus of TRMC | ADEL | not rated | $15,442 | $15,442 | not mentioned | not published | $1,111 | $34,259 | 16 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Northside | COLUMBUS | 5/5 | $16,204 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $30,662 | $7,561 | $71,276 | 27 |
| University Mcduffie County Regional Medical Center | THOMSON | not rated | $16,238 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $42,549 | $15,105 | $57,709 | 20 |
| Grady Memorial Hospital | ATLANTA | 2/5 | $16,254 | $16,254 | not mentioned | not published | $3,500 | $52,083 | 28 |
| Bacon County Hospital | ALMA | not rated | $16,451 | $16,451 | not mentioned | $12,903 | $16,128 | $22,580 | 5 |
| East Georgia Regional Medical Center | STATESBORO | 3/5 | $17,434 | $17,434 | not mentioned | not published | $900 | $45,218 | 25 |
| Memorial Health Meadows Hospital | VIDALIA | 5/5 | $18,542 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $450 | $98,638 | 43 |
| St Francis Hospital- Emory Healthcare | COLUMBUS | 3/5 | $18,643 | $18,643 | not mentioned | not published | $17,424 | $39,880 | 14 |
| Piedmont Mountainside Hospital | JASPER | 4/5 | $18,727 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $42,549 | $17,502 | $72,145 | 23 |
| Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital | ALBANY | 2/5 | $18,757 | $18,757 | not mentioned | not published | $17,864 | $31,262 | 7 |
| Piedmont Hospital | ATLANTA | 4/5 | $18,834 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $46,040 | $3 | $68,023 | 25 |
| St Joseph's Hospital - Savannah | SAVANNAH | 2/5 | $18,896 | $18,896 | not mentioned | not published | $5,655 | $39,992 | 26 |
| Navicent Health Baldwin | MILLEDGEVILLE | 2/5 | $18,963 | $18,963 | not mentioned | not published | $18,775 | $41,493 | 11 |
| Fairview Park Hospital | DUBLIN | 4/5 | $18,970 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $400 | $53,672 | 130 |
| WellStar Paulding Medical Center | HIRAM | 4/5 | $19,022 | $19,022 | not mentioned | not published | $17,778 | $94,934 | 23 |
| WellStar North Fulton Medical Center | ROSWELL | 2/5 | $19,160 | $19,160 | not mentioned | not published | $17,907 | $94,934 | 24 |
| Candler Hospital | SAVANNAH | 2/5 | $19,234 | $19,234 | not mentioned | not published | $5,655 | $39,992 | 26 |
| Doctors Hospital | AUGUSTA | 3/5 | $19,364 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $450 | $53,831 | 165 |
| Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center | ATHENS | 4/5 | $19,411 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $36,724 | $19,332 | $19,993 | 5 |
| Memorial Satilla Health | WAYCROSS | 3/5 | $19,437 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $450 | $53,672 | 54 |
| Coffee Regional Medical Center | DOUGLAS | 3/5 | $19,803 | $19,803 | not mentioned | not published | $18,518 | $47,150 | 19 |
| Phoebe Sumter Medical Center | AMERICUS | 3/5 | $19,890 | $19,890 | not mentioned | not published | $18,943 | $33,150 | 8 |
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center | ROME | 2/5 | $20,169 | $20,169 | not mentioned | not published | $19,970 | $39,939 | 13 |
| SGMC Health | VALDOSTA | 2/5 | $20,222 | $20,222 | not mentioned | not published | $14,615 | $23,898 | 4 |
| Memorial Health University Medical Center | SAVANNAH | 1/5 | $20,361 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $450 | $52,549 | 65 |
| Tift Regional Medical Center | TIFTON | 3/5 | $20,425 | $20,425 | not mentioned | not published | $1,111 | $83,844 | 18 |
| Tanner Medical Center - Carrollton | CARROLLTON | 2/5 | $20,650 | $20,650 | not mentioned | not published | $670 | $22,270 | 7 |
| Piedmont Fayette Hospital | FAYETTEVILLE | 3/5 | $20,732 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $46,748 | $7,561 | $68,023 | 25 |
| AdventHealth Gordon | CALHOUN | 3/5 | $20,953 | $20,953 | not mentioned | not published | $20,033 | $40,516 | 12 |
| Piedmont Newnan Hospital | NEWNAN | 4/5 | $21,004 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $53,356 | $7,561 | $68,023 | 25 |
| Piedmont Augusta Hospital | AUGUSTA | 2/5 | $21,009 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $31,153 | $14,325 | $57,819 | 26 |
| Piedmont Macon North Hospital | MACON | 4/5 | $21,105 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $42,549 | $15,449 | $57,996 | 22 |
| Piedmont Walton Hospital | MONROE | 4/5 | $21,190 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $42,549 | $19,729 | $57,709 | 23 |
| Piedmont Newton Hospital | COVINGTON | 3/5 | $21,379 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $42,549 | $20,095 | $57,996 | 23 |
| Piedmont Henry Hospital | STOCKBRIDGE | 2/5 | $21,472 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $47,179 | $7,561 | $68,023 | 25 |
| AdventHealth Redmond | ROME | 4/5 | $21,480 | $21,480 | not mentioned | not published | $15,982 | $51,648 | 21 |
| Chi Memorial Hospital- Georgia | RINGGOLD | 3/5 | $21,556 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $12,034 | $40,882 | 20 |
| Coliseum Medical Centers | MACON | 3/5 | $21,747 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $36,072 | $16,381 | $57,819 | 22 |
| Piedmont Rockdale Hospital | CONYERS | 3/5 | $22,232 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $42,549 | $20,778 | $57,996 | 25 |
| Atrium Health Navicent Peach | BYRON | 1/5 | $23,054 | $23,054 | not mentioned | not published | $23,054 | $24,700 | 3 |
| Southern Regional Medical Center | RIVERDALE | 1/5 | $23,991 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $23,401 | $16,220 | $40,953 | 46 |
| WellStar Douglas Medical Center | DOUGLASVILLE | 3/5 | $24,044 | $24,044 | not mentioned | not published | $22,471 | $94,934 | 24 |
| AdventHealth Murray | CHATSWORTH | 5/5 | $24,254 | $24,254 | not mentioned | not published | $19,173 | $38,223 | 10 |
| Emory Houston Hospital Warner Robins | WARNER ROBINS | 2/5 | $24,414 | $24,414 | not mentioned | not published | $18,031 | $50,256 | 15 |
| WellStar Cobb Medical Center | AUSTELL | 3/5 | $25,503 | $25,503 | not mentioned | not published | $23,834 | $94,934 | 24 |
| WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center | MARIETTA | 4/5 | $26,027 | $26,027 | not mentioned | not published | $24,325 | $94,934 | 24 |
| Emory Hillandale Hospital | LITHONIA | 1/5 | $26,164 | $26,164 | not mentioned | not published | $24,414 | $52,576 | 22 |
| Piedmont Eastside Medical Center | SNELLVILLE | 2/5 | $26,871 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $39,507 | $19,807 | $68,023 | 24 |
| WellStar MCG Health, Affiliated with Med Col | AUGUSTA | 1/5 | $26,968 | $26,968 | not mentioned | not published | $21,340 | $94,934 | 30 |
| Atrium Health Navicent the Medical Center | MACON | 2/5 | $27,628 | $27,628 | not mentioned | not published | $20,928 | $54,365 | 21 |
| Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta | ATLANTA | 3/5 | $28,626 | $28,626 | not mentioned | not published | $17,714 | $50,256 | 24 |
| Emory Johns Creek Hospital | JOHNS CREEK | 4/5 | $28,626 | $28,626 | not mentioned | not published | $17,770 | $50,256 | 24 |
| Emory Decatur Hospital | DECATUR | 2/5 | $28,626 | $28,626 | not mentioned | not published | $21,759 | $50,256 | 24 |
| Emory University Hospital | ATLANTA | 4/5 | $28,901 | $28,901 | not mentioned | not published | $23,551 | $50,256 | 24 |
| WellStar West Georgia Medical Center | LAGRANGE | 5/5 | $28,932 | $28,932 | not mentioned | not published | $20,890 | $94,934 | 22 |
| Emory University Hospital Midtown | ATLANTA | 2/5 | $29,043 | $29,043 | not mentioned | not published | $23,819 | $50,497 | 24 |
| Crisp Regional Hospital | CORDELE | 2/5 | $29,323 | $29,323 | not mentioned | not published | $19,013 | $34,491 | 4 |
| Southeast Georgia Health System -- Camden Campus | SAINT MARYS | 4/5 | $29,670 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $21,266 | $42,702 | 29 |
| Southeast Georgia Health System- Brunswick Campus | BRUNSWICK | 2/5 | $29,670 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $21,266 | $39,699 | 29 |
| WellStar Spalding Medical Center | GRIFFIN | 2/5 | $29,968 | $29,968 | not mentioned | not published | $21,637 | $94,934 | 22 |
| NGMC Barrow | WINDER | 4/5 | $31,807 | $31,807 | not mentioned | not published | $22,822 | $71,500 | 22 |
| SGMC Berrien Campus | NASHVILLE | not rated | $32,092 | $32,092 | not mentioned | not published | $26,743 | $40,115 | 3 |
| Piedmont Cartersville Medical Center | CARTERSVILLE | 3/5 | $32,463 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $46,152 | $20,002 | $68,023 | 25 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown | COLUMBUS | 2/5 | $34,394 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $42,400 | $7,561 | $71,276 | 27 |
| Memorial Hospital and Manor | BAINBRIDGE | 1/5 | $35,005 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $9,026 | $1,667,325 | 12 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center Lumpkin | DAHLONEGA | 5/5 | $38,012 | $38,012 | not mentioned | not published | $21,570 | $73,906 | 25 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center Habersham | DEMOREST | 3/5 | $38,012 | $38,012 | not mentioned | not published | $19,168 | $73,906 | 27 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center | GAINESVILLE | 3/5 | $52,268 | $52,268 | not mentioned | not published | $22,344 | $73,906 | 39 |
| St Mary's Hospital | ATHENS | 1/5 | $53,699 | $53,699 | not mentioned | $62,797 | $3,454 | $53,699 | 95 |
| Hamilton Medical Center | DALTON | 3/5 | $61,547 | $61,547 | not mentioned | not published | $61,547 | $61,547 | 1 |
| WellStar Sylvan Grove Medical Center | JACKSON | not rated | $72,990 | $72,990 | not mentioned | not published | $62,923 | $94,934 | 7 |

## 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 2 of the 20 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 18 it is higher.

3 of these 80 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: South Georgia Specialty Hospital, Southeast Georgia Health System -- Camden Campus, Southeast Georgia Health System- Brunswick Campus.

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