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Guided Spine Injection, Neck Or Upper Back, First Level

Connecticut 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?

$4,828

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,828 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $257 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,571 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$257$162 to $389
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,571$3,162 to $5,370

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,571 · 10th to 90th $1,202 to $8,511Professionalmedian $257 · 10th to 90th $123 to $724
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $4,571professional $257

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
$1,202.26
Median
$4,677.35
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$3,630.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$758.58
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$2,137.96
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$10,471.29
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$549.54
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$588.84
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,479.11
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$660.69
ConnectiCare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$575.44
Health New England
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$269.15
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$4,677.35
Typical High
$9,332.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$630.96

Where Connecticut 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

Connecticut· 1st of 50

$4,828

$257 physician + $4,571 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.