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Grays Harbor Community Hospital

AberdeenGrays Harbor CountyAcute Care Hospitals

Lower back spinal injection (epidural)

Quality: 3 of 5 (CMS overall rating)Earliest available date: call (360) 532-8330

What you may pay

With insurance from an employer or private plan
$745 to $1,450Depends on your plan. Each plan’s price at this hospital:
  • REGENCE BLUESHIELD - Commercial-PPO: Regence Blue Shield $745Below what Traditional Medicare pays this hospital for this ($842, CY2026 rate). Private plans almost always pay more than Medicare, so this may cover only part of the bill or be a mistake in the hospital’s file. Ask REGENCE BLUESHIELD - Commercial-PPO for its rate before relying on it.
  • PREMERA BLUE CROSS - Commercial-PPO: Premera Blue Cross $1,450 Typical
Typical at 8 hospitals we cover: $1,236 to $1,869 (each hospital’s middle plan price, hospital’s fee). Don’t see your plan? Ask your insurer for its rate here.
Paying yourself (cash price)
$1,652 TypicalTypical hospital’s fee at 13 hospitals we cover: $1,184 to $1,733.

These are prices the hospital published, not a quote. With insurance you usually pay part of the rate (your deductible and coinsurance); the estimator on the procedure page works it out. A higher price does not mean better care.

Doctors usually bill separately. At most hospitals these are the hospital’s own charges. The surgeon, radiologist, anesthesiologist or pathologist usually sends a separate bill: ask each of them for an estimate too.

Source: Grays Harbor Community Hospital’s own price file. CareNavIQ last refreshed prices on 2026-11-09.

Next step: ask the hospital for a Good Faith Estimate for this procedure (phone number above).

7 published prices, grouped by who each price applies to.

Cash price 1 price

The hospital's discounted price for patients paying without insurance.

PricePart of the billHospital’s descriptionHow it’s setSettingSource date
$1,652Hospital’s feeLUMB EPID BLK VIA X-LAM—Inpatient or outpatient—

List price (before discounts) 1 price

The hospital's full chargemaster price. Few patients pay this amount.

PricePart of the billHospital’s descriptionHow it’s setSettingSource date
$2,542Hospital’s feeLUMB EPID BLK VIA X-LAM—Inpatient or outpatient—

Commercial insurance 2 prices

Rate negotiated with a private insurer or employer plan, including exchange and public-option plans.

Prices marked “below Medicare” are less than Traditional Medicare pays this hospital for the same code. They may be one line of a bigger bill or a mistake in the hospital’s file: ask the plan for its rate.

PayerPlanPricePart of the billHospital’s descriptionHow it’s setSettingSource date
PREMERA BLUE CROSS - Commercial-PPOPremera Blue Cross$1,450Hospital’s feeLUMB EPID BLK VIA X-LAMfee scheduleInpatient or outpatient—
REGENCE BLUESHIELD - Commercial-PPORegence Blue Shield$745Below Medicare ($842)Hospital’s feeLUMB EPID BLK VIA X-LAMfee scheduleInpatient or outpatient—

Medicare Advantage 3 prices

Rate for a private Medicare Advantage plan. Applies only to members of that plan.

PayerPlanPricePart of the billHospital’s descriptionHow it’s setSettingSource date
CIGNA HEALTH & LIFE INS. CO. - Medicare Part AMedicare Advantage$746Hospital’s feeLUMB EPID BLK VIA X-LAMfee scheduleInpatient or outpatient—
PREMERA BC WA INDIVIDUAL - Medicare Part AMedicare Advantage$746Hospital’s feeLUMB EPID BLK VIA X-LAMfee scheduleInpatient or outpatient—
REGENCE BLUESHIELD - Medicare Part AMedicare Advantage$748Hospital’s feeLUMB EPID BLK VIA X-LAMfee scheduleInpatient or outpatient—

Doctors here who do this procedure

4 doctors affiliated with Grays Harbor Community Hospital billed Traditional Medicare for Lower back spinal injection (epidural) in 2024, most Medicare services first. See all doctors and practices, including those with no hospital affiliation.

Doctor or practicePracticeMedicare quality scoreTimes billed to Traditional Medicare (2024)Traditional Medicare amount for their own service (2024)
Douglas Taylor, MDAnesthesiology · OlympiaOffers telehealth visitsOlympia Orthopaedic Associates PLLCGroup of 87 cliniciansNot rated289$253 in the office (no hospital amount)
Peter Park, DOPhysical Medicine And Rehabilitation · OlympiaOffers telehealth visitsOlympia Orthopaedic Associates PLLCGroup of 87 clinicians89 of 100CMS MIPS 2024, reported by their group91$257 in the office (no hospital amount)
Joseph Stengel, DODiagnostic Radiology · AberdeenGrays Harbor Community HospitalGroup of 88 clinicians85 of 100CMS MIPS 202414$97.70 at a hospital or surgery center
Praveen Mambalam, MDAnesthesiology · EdmondsPain Care Physicians PLLCGroup of 12 clinicians94 of 100CMS MIPS 2024, reported by their group14$103 at a hospital or surgery center

Reading the doctor list

  • A higher price doesn’t mean better care. The quality score and the price come from different CMS files and are shown separately on purpose.
  • The amount is what Traditional Medicare (original Medicare) approved for the doctor’s or lab’s own service: Medicare’s payment plus the patient’s share. It is not what commercial insurance or Medicare Advantage pays, and the hospital or surgery center bills separately (surgery centers aren’t in this list).
  • The Medicare quality score is CMS’s MIPS final score (0 to 100), based mostly on the doctor’s Medicare patients. About half of doctors aren’t scored, so Not rated says nothing bad about a doctor. A group’s score covers everyone in the group.
  • CMS doesn’t publish counts under 11 patients, so doctors who rarely bill Medicare for this aren’t listed, and No price published means CMS has no amount for that setting.
  • Medicare’s file doesn’t say where a doctor did the procedure, only that they billed it in Washington. Affiliations are the hospitals each doctor lists with Medicare.

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