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Sacroiliac Joint Nerve Injection with Imaging Guidance

South Carolina 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?

$1,249

Typical total for the visit. In South Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,249 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $178 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,072 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$178$89.13 to $251
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,072$251 to $5,623

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,072 · 10th to 90th $95 to $9,772Professionalmedian $178 · 10th to 90th $72 to $295
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $1,072professional $178

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
$95.50
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$263.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,318.26
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,819.70
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$389.05
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$891.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$416.87
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$407.38
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$7,762.47
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$331.13

Where South Carolina 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

South Carolina· 33rd of 49

$1,249

$178 physician + $1,072 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.