Spinal fusion, lower back (hospital stay)

The whole hospital stay for a lower-back spinal fusion, without major complications.
Code 460 · Hospital stays (inpatient) · statewide summary · negotiated in-network prices
Payers shown: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming
Prices shown: hospital inpatient care
Doctor’s fee or facility fee? This is the hospital's own payment for the stay (the facility fee). Surgeons, anesthesiologists and other doctors bill separately, on top of it.
Who is counted: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming lists clinicians individually: 83% of the 10,432 provider IDs (NPIs) it names are individual doctors, nurse practitioners and therapists; the rest are practices, clinics and hospitals. “Providers” counts those IDs.
Not on this map: Care outside its home state: Blue Cross Blue Shield plans share one national network, BlueCard, for members treated in other states. Those prices are published centrally, not by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming, so they are not included here. Hospital stays: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming's files price whole hospital stays for only a handful of hospitals, so its hospital-stay maps show very few places.
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This is a statewide summary. Prices vary far more between towns and between practices than these medians suggest; zip-code and provider-level detail is not published here; this specific data can be requested here.