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Extra Spinal Level Freed During Nerve Surgery

Kansas rates for HCPCS 63043

The additional work when a surgeon frees trapped nerves at more than one level of the spine during the same operation. Bone or disc material pressing on the nerve is cleared away at each further level, and this is charged in addition to the main operation.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Extra Spinal Level Freed During Nerve Surgery cost?

$603

Typical negotiated rate. In Kansas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $603 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $501 from a physician practice, and about $3,715 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$501$347 to $603
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3,715$1,660 to $6,457

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,715 · 10th to 90th $832 to $10,471Professionalmedian $501 · 10th to 90th $347 to $977
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,715professional $501

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$10,471.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$1,348.96
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$346.74
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$15,488.17
Typical High
$15,488.17
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,174.90
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$5,888.44
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$4,466.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,778.28
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$7,943.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$467.74

Where Kansas sits

The same service costs 27.5 times more in California than in Hawaii. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Kansas· 37th of 51

$603

CA $7,943HI $288

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.