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Guided Spine Injection, Neck Or Upper Back, First Level

Arkansas rates for HCPCS 64479

Numbing medicine and/or an anti-inflammatory steroid is injected near a nerve root as it exits the spine in the neck or upper back, using real-time imaging to guide the needle precisely. This covers treatment of the first spinal level; treating additional levels in the same visit is billed separately.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Guided Spine Injection, Neck Or Upper Back, First Level cost?

$1,080

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,080 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $209 to the doctor who performs it, and $871 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$209$151 to $282
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$871$575 to $1,288

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $871 · 10th to 90th $234 to $1,820Professionalmedian $209 · 10th to 90th $120 to $380
$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $871professional $209

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
$162.18
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,862.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$371.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$724.44
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$218.78
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$263.03
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,174.90
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$389.05
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$724.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$467.74
Qualchoice
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$251.19
Qualchoice
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$302.00
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$2,511.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$436.52

Where Arkansas sits

The same service costs 11.3 times more in Connecticut 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

Arkansas· 38th of 50

$1,080

$209 physician + $871 facility

CT $4,828MD $429

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.