DRG 520 · Musculoskeletal

Back & Neck Surgery (Non-Fusion) Cost in Virginia — Compare All Hospitals

An operation on the back or neck that does not fuse bones of the spine together, such as removing part of a damaged disc or relieving pressure on a nerve. Patients are usually up and walking soon after surgery, with a short recovery stay.

State average
$65,232
gross charge · DRG 520
Hospitals
7
with published pricing
Price range
$55,276 – $124,963
low to high
Lowest $55,276 Highest $124,963

7 Virginia hospitals publish gross charges for back & neck surgery (non-fusion) (DRG 520). Prices range from $55,276 to $124,963 — roughly $69,687 apart. The cheapest is Russell County Hospital in Lebanon; the most expensive is Sovah Health - Danville in Danville. The state average sits at $65,232.

The number you see is each hospital's published "list price" — the gross charge for the facility component of back & neck surgery (non-fusion). Insurance plans negotiate substantial discounts, Medicare and Medicaid pay fixed federal rates, and uninsured patients can usually qualify for a cash-pay discount. But the gross charge still works as a useful benchmark: a hospital that lists back & neck surgery (non-fusion) at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.

If you're scheduling back & neck surgery (non-fusion) in Virginia, sort the list below by price, then click each hospital name to see its quality profile — CMS overall star rating, surgical-safety measures, readmission rates, patient-experience scores. The cheapest hospital isn't always the right call. Teaching hospitals often charge more because they take complex cases, and a higher-rated community hospital may deliver equivalent outcomes for a straightforward case at a lower price. Use the price column to narrow the field; use the quality data to make the final call.

Pricing comes from each hospital's Machine-Readable File (MRF), published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Virginia hospitals missing from the list either don't perform back & neck surgery (non-fusion) in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 520 in their most recent MRF, or fell below our data-quality thresholds (we filter out clearly erroneous entries like $0 charges). The list refreshes as hospitals update their files.

Hospitals ranked by gross charge

  1. 1

    Russell County Hospital

    Lebanon, VA

    Gross charge $55,276
    Cash pay $8,291
  2. 2
    Gross charge $55,276
    Cash pay $8,291
  3. 3

    Johnston Memorial Hospital

    Abingdon, VA

    Gross charge $55,276
    Cash pay $8,291
  4. 4

    Lonesome Pine Hospital (Acute Care)

    Big Stone Gap, VA

    Gross charge $55,276
    Cash pay $8,291
  5. 5
    Gross charge $55,276
    Cash pay $8,291
  6. 6

    Lee County Community Hospital

    Pennington Gap, VA

    Gross charge $55,276
    Cash pay $8,291
  7. 7

    Sovah Health - Danville

    Danville, VA

    Gross charge $124,963
    Cash pay $49,985
  8. 8

    UVA Health Culpeper Medical Center

    Culpeper, VA

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  9. 9

    Mary Washington Hospital

    Fredericksburg, VA

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  10. 10

    Inova Alexandria Hospital

    Alexandria, VA

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  11. 11

    Inova Loudoun Hospital

    Leesburg, VA

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  12. 12
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  13. 13

    Lewisgale Medical Center

    Salem, VA

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  14. 14

    Inova Fairfax Medical Campus

    Falls Church, VA

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  15. 15

    Inova Fair Oaks Hospital

    Fairfax, VA

    Gross charge
  16. 16

    Reston Hospital Center

    Reston, VA

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  17. 17

    Lewisgale Hospital Montgomery

    Blacksburg, VA

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  18. 18

    Lewisgale Hospital Pulaski

    Pulaski, VA

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  19. 19

    Inova Mount Vernon Hospital

    Alexandria, VA

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  20. 20

    Lewisgale Hospital Alleghany

    Low Moor, VA

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  21. 21

    Stafford Hospital, Llc

    Stafford, VA

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  22. 22

    Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center

    Fredericksburg, VA

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  23. 23

    UVA Health Haymarket Medical Center

    Haymarket, VA

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  24. 24

    Stonesprings Hospital Center

    Dulles, VA

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  25. 25

    Augusta Health (Acute Care)

    Fishersville, VA

    19 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,519
  26. 26

    VCU Health Tappahannock Hospital

    Tappahannock, VA

    Gross charge

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