Kittitas Valley Community Hospital

EllensburgKittitas CountyCritical Access Hospitals

Lower back nerve root injection

Quality: not rated by CMSEarliest available date: call (509) 962-9841

What you may pay

With insurance from an employer or private plan: $1,561Only one plan lists a price here:
FIRST CHOICE-ALL PLANS $1,561 Lower than typical
Typical at 36 hospitals we cover: $2,395 to $2,983 (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): $1,561 TypicalTypical hospital’s fee at 25 hospitals we cover: $1,446 to $2,120.

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: Kittitas Valley Community Hospital’s own price file, dated 2026-10-07. CareNavIQ last refreshed prices on 2026-11-09.

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

8 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 nerve root injection at Kittitas Valley Community Hospital
Price	Part of the bill	Hospital’s description	How it’s set	Setting	Source date
$1,561	Hospital’s fee	Injection of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into sacral spine nerve root using imaging guidance, single level	—	Outpatient	2026-10-07

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 nerve root injection at Kittitas Valley Community Hospital
Price	Part of the bill	Hospital’s description	How it’s set	Setting	Source date
$1,837	Hospital’s fee	Injection of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into sacral spine nerve root using imaging guidance, single level	—	Outpatient	2026-10-07

Commercial insurance 1 price

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

Commercial insurance prices for Lower back nerve root injection at Kittitas Valley Community Hospital
Payer	Plan	Price	Part of the bill	Hospital’s description	How it’s set	Setting	Source date
FIRST CHOICE-ALL PLANS	FIRST CHOICE-ALL PLANS	$1,561	Hospital’s fee	Injection of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into sacral spine nerve root using imaging guidance, single level	percent of total billed charges	Outpatient	2026-10-07

Medicare Advantage 1 price

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

Medicare Advantage prices for Lower back nerve root injection at Kittitas Valley Community Hospital
Payer	Plan	Price	Part of the bill	Hospital’s description	How it’s set	Setting	Source date
AETNA MCR ADV	AETNA MCR ADV	$661	Hospital’s fee	Injection of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into sacral spine nerve root using imaging guidance, single level	percent of total billed charges	Outpatient	2026-10-07

Unknown 4 prices

The source file doesn't say which population this rate applies to.

Unknown prices for Lower back nerve root injection at Kittitas Valley Community Hospital
Payer	Plan	Price	Part of the bill	Hospital’s description	How it’s set	Setting	Source date
AETNA-ALL OTHER PLANS	AETNA-ALL OTHER PLANS	$1,745	Hospital’s fee	Injection of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into sacral spine nerve root using imaging guidance, single level	percent of total billed charges	Outpatient	2026-10-07
CHPW-ALL PLANS	CHPW-ALL PLANS	$1,561	Hospital’s fee	Injection of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into sacral spine nerve root using imaging guidance, single level	percent of total billed charges	Outpatient	2026-10-07
PREMERA FIRST-ALL PLANS	PREMERA FIRST-ALL PLANS	$1,547	Hospital’s fee	Injection of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into sacral spine nerve root using imaging guidance, single level	percent of total billed charges	Outpatient	2026-10-07
UHC-ALL PLANS	UHC-ALL PLANS	$1,745	Hospital’s fee	Injection of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into sacral spine nerve root using imaging guidance, single level	percent of total billed charges	Outpatient	2026-10-07

Doctors here who do this procedure

6 doctors affiliated with Kittitas Valley Community Hospital billed Traditional Medicare for Lower back nerve root injection in 2024, most Medicare services first. See all doctors and practices, including those with no hospital affiliation.

Doctors affiliated with Kittitas Valley Community Hospital who billed Traditional Medicare for Lower back nerve root injection
Doctor or practice	Practice	Medicare quality score	Times billed to Traditional Medicare (2024)	Traditional Medicare amount for their own service (2024)
Jason Kim, MDPain Management · IssaquahOffers telehealth visits	Independent practice	28 of 100CMS MIPS 2024	292	$296 in the office (no hospital amount)
Herbie Yung, MDPhysical Medicine And Rehabilitation · Mount VernonOffers telehealth visits	Overlake Medical Clinics LLCGroup of 425 clinicians	Not rated	182	$120 at a hospital or surgery center
Henry Kim, MDInterventional Pain Management · Yakima	Yakima Valley Memorial PhysiciansGroup of 391 clinicians	Not rated	122	$118 in the office (no hospital amount)
Joe Kim, MDPain Management · Yakima	Yakima Valley Memorial PhysiciansGroup of 391 clinicians	Not rated	90	$124 in the office (no hospital amount)
Daniel Kwon, MDPhysical Medicine And Rehabilitation · YakimaOffers telehealth visits	Yakima Valley Memorial PhysiciansGroup of 391 clinicians	Not rated	58	$121 in the office (no hospital amount)
Thomas Gedulig, DOInterventional Pain Management · Yakima	Yakima Valley Memorial PhysiciansGroup of 391 clinicians	Not rated	29	$123 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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