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WhidbeyHealth Medical Center

CoupevilleIsland CountyCritical Access Hospitals

Lower back spinal injection (epidural)

Quality: 2 of 5 (CMS overall rating)Earliest available date: call (360) 678-5151

What you may pay

With insurance from an employer or private plan
No price posted for commercial insurance.
Paying yourself (cash price)
$1,160 – $3,240The hospital lists 2 separate amounts for this procedure. They may be parts of one bill that you pay together (for example the hospital’s fee and the fee of the doctor who reads a scan) or alternatives (inpatient or outpatient). We don’t show one price or compare it until we can tell which; every line is listed below. Ask the hospital which lines apply to you.

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: WhidbeyHealth Medical Center’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).

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

Cash price 2 prices

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

PricePart of the billHospital’s descriptionHow it’s setSettingSource date
$1,160Hospital’s feeNJX INTERLAMINAR LMBR/SAC—Outpatient—
$3,240Hospital’s feeNJX INTERLAMINAR LMBR/SAC—Outpatient—

List price (before discounts) 2 prices

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

PricePart of the billHospital’s descriptionHow it’s setSettingSource date
$1,160Hospital’s feeNJX INTERLAMINAR LMBR/SAC—Outpatient—
$3,240Hospital’s feeNJX INTERLAMINAR LMBR/SAC—Outpatient—

Doctors here who do this procedure

2 doctors affiliated with WhidbeyHealth Medical Center 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)
Robert Billow, DOPhysical Medicine And Rehabilitation · AnacortesPublic Hospital District No 2 Skagit County WashingtonGroup of 76 cliniciansNot rated103$95.98 at a hospital or surgery center
Steven Taylor, MDPhysical Medicine And Rehabilitation · EverettProliance Surgeons Inc P SGroup of 397 cliniciansNot rated36$260 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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