Neck spinal fusion (hospital stay)

The whole hospital stay for a cervical (neck) spinal fusion, without complications.
Code 473 · Hospital stays (inpatient) · statewide summary · negotiated in-network prices
Payers shown: Ohio Health Choice
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: Ohio Health Choice lists clinicians individually: 99% of the 33,174 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: No index of files: Ohio Health Choice publishes no table of contents, so its numbered files were found one by one (18 of numbers 1-40 exist, October 2026).
StateProvidersOrganisationsZip codes Lowest25th pctMedian75th pctHighestvs Medicare
“x Medicare” compares each price with what original Medicare actually paid hospitals in the same state for the same kind of stay in 2024, the newest year it has published: the average per stay, the patient’s share included, at hospitals with more than ten such stays. Medicare’s payment varies by hospital (wages, teaching, low-income patients), so this is a state average, not any one hospital’s rate. Insurers write their contracts as a share of Medicare, so 1.3x means the insurer pays 30% more than Medicare would; Medicare Advantage plans generally pay close to 1.0x.
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.