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Sacroiliac Joint Nerve Injection with Imaging Guidance

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 64451

This is an injection of numbing medication and often a steroid around the small nerves that supply the sacroiliac joint, the joint connecting the base of the spine to the pelvis, guided by live X-ray or CT imaging to place the needle precisely. It is used both to help diagnose whether this joint is a source of low back pain and to reduce pain and inflammation.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Sacroiliac Joint Nerve Injection with Imaging Guidance cost?

$1,483

Typical total for the visit. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,483 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $195 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,288 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$195$102 to $282
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,288$813 to $2,692

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,288 · 10th to 90th $309 to $3,467Professionalmedian $195 · 10th to 90th $79 to $331
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,288professional $195

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
$295.12
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$3,467.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$316.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$173.78
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$83.18
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$3,019.95
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$338.84
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$645.65
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$398.11
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$346.74
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$2,290.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$331.13

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 15.6 times more in New Jersey than in Maryland. 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

Louisiana· 31st of 49

$1,483

$195 physician + $1,288 facility

NJ $5,570MD $358

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.