Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics

SheltonMason CountyCritical Access Hospitals

Lower back spinal injection (epidural)

Quality: 2 of 5 (CMS overall rating)Earliest available date: call (360) 426-1611

What you may pay

With insurance from an employer or private plan: $391 to $552Depends on your plan. Each plan’s price at this hospital:
Aetna $391 Lower than typical
Molina $404 Lower than typical
Blue Cross Blue Shield $552 Lower than 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): $519 Lower than 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: Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics’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).

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

Cash price 1 price

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

Cash price prices for Lower back spinal injection (epidural) at Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics
Price	Part of the bill	Hospital’s description	How it’s set	Setting	Source date
$519	Hospital’s fee	62323 ESI lumbar or sacral with fluoroscopy	—	Inpatient or outpatient	—

List price (before discounts) 1 price

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

List price (before discounts) prices for Lower back spinal injection (epidural) at Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics
Price	Part of the bill	Hospital’s description	How it’s set	Setting	Source date
$692	Hospital’s fee	62323 ESI lumbar or sacral with fluoroscopy	—	Inpatient or outpatient	—

Commercial insurance 3 prices

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

Commercial insurance prices for Lower back spinal injection (epidural) at Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics
Payer	Plan	Price	Part of the bill	Hospital’s description	How it’s set	Setting	Source date
Aetna	Commercial	$391	Hospital’s fee	62323 ESI lumbar or sacral with fluoroscopy	fee schedule	Inpatient or outpatient	—
Blue Cross Blue Shield	Commercial	$552	Hospital’s fee	62323 ESI lumbar or sacral with fluoroscopy	fee schedule	Inpatient or outpatient	—
Molina	Commercial	$404	Hospital’s fee	62323 ESI lumbar or sacral with fluoroscopy	fee schedule	Inpatient or outpatient	—

Medicare Advantage 1 price

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

Medicare Advantage prices for Lower back spinal injection (epidural) at Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics
Payer	Plan	Price	Part of the bill	Hospital’s description	How it’s set	Setting	Source date
Humana	Medicare Advantage	$408	Hospital’s fee	62323 ESI lumbar or sacral with fluoroscopy	fee schedule	Inpatient or outpatient	—

Doctors here who do this procedure

2 doctors affiliated with Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics 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.

Doctors affiliated with Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics who billed Traditional Medicare for Lower back spinal injection (epidural)
Doctor or practice	Practice	Medicare quality score	Times billed to Traditional Medicare (2024)	Traditional Medicare amount for their own service (2024)
Douglas Taylor, MDAnesthesiology · OlympiaOffers telehealth visits	Olympia Orthopaedic Associates PLLCGroup of 87 clinicians	Not rated	289	$253 in the office (no hospital amount)
Peter Park, DOPhysical Medicine And Rehabilitation · OlympiaOffers telehealth visits	Olympia Orthopaedic Associates PLLCGroup of 87 clinicians	89 of 100CMS MIPS 2024, reported by their group	91	$257 in the office (no hospital amount)

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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