Home Compare Prices context ms drg 520 negotiated case rate d589fc9364

MS-DRG 520 - BACK AND NECK PROCEDURES EXCEPT SPINAL FUSION WITHOUT CC/MCC

Billing code: MS-DRG 520 · Price type: Negotiated rate · Methodology: Case rate (per episode) · Care setting: inpatient · Billing type: Not labeled by hospital · Modifiers: No modifiers

This page shows ONE exact comparison context. Prices here are only ever compared with prices published under the same price type, payment methodology, care setting, billing type, and modifiers.

All contexts for this service.
Case rate (per episode)
Case rate: each negotiated amount covers an entire episode or bundle of care.

Comparable hospitals (n)

11

Typical hospital price

$5,637

Lower hospital price (10th pct)

$5,022

Upper hospital price (90th pct)

$24,219

Comparison status: Comparable (described) · Comparison confidence: High · 11 hospital(s) published this context across 112 insurer contract(s). Every statistic uses one representative price per hospital.

Loading...
No Results
Definition
"This hospital's price" is the hospital's ONE representative amount for this exact context — for negotiated rates, the median of its deduplicated insurer contract amounts, so a rate repeated across many rows counts once. The bars above are exactly the values behind the percentiles at the top of the page. See what the price types mean.
© 2026 Hospital Price Lens · An independent portfolio project by Jake Gussler · GitHub · LinkedIn