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Spinal fusion, lower or middle back, without major complications (hospital stay)

The whole hospital stay for a spinal fusion outside the neck.
MS-DRG 460 · Retired code · official definition (CMS) · Hospital stays (inpatient) · 112 hospitals in Iowa · from hospitals' own price files

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Prices come from the machine-readable standard-charge files each hospital must publish (45 CFR 180), dated 2026-01-28 to 2026-09-01. A negotiated rate is what an insurer pays the hospital, not what you owe: your deductible, copay and coinsurance decide that. "Typical" is the median across insurers. The cash price is the hospital's discounted price for paying without insurance; the gross charge is its list price. Some hospitals state part of their insurer pricing only as a percentage of charges or a formula; those rates have no dollar figure and are not shown. A grey ring is a hospital with no price for this procedure; click it to see why. Retired code. Medicare replaced it on October 1, 2024 with separate codes for one-level fusions (450, 451) and fusions of more than one level (447, 448). Hospital price files dated after that use the new codes, so fewer hospitals list this one.