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Continuous Nerve Block for the Arm

Tennessee rates for HCPCS 64416

Places a fine catheter next to the bundle of nerves in the neck and shoulder that supplies the arm, so numbing medicine can be infused continuously instead of being given as a single injection. It provides pain relief during and for a period after shoulder, arm or hand surgery.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Continuous Nerve Block for the Arm cost?

$1,055

Typical total for the visit. In Tennessee, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,055 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $100 to the doctor who performs it, and $955 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$100$79.43 to $138
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$955$603 to $1,514

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $955 · 10th to 90th $398 to $2,291Professionalmedian $100 · 10th to 90th $63 to $1,413
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $955professional $100

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$7,585.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$93.33
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$177.83
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,949.84
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$141.25
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,659.59
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$165.96
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,412.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$2,511.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$194.98
5 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$30.90
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$44.67
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$12.30
Median
$13.49
Typical High
$18.20
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$67.61
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$10.23
Typical High
$13.49
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$6.17
Median
$6.76
Typical High
$9.12

Where Tennessee sits

The same service costs 12.2 times more in Connecticut than in Montana. 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.

Physician feeFacility fee

Tennessee· 24th of 51

$1,055

$100 physician + $955 facility

CT $2,815MT $231

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.