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Guided Spine Injection, Neck Or Upper Back, First Level

Idaho 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?

$1,039

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,039 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $263 to the doctor who performs it, and $776 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$263$186 to $380
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$776$372 to $1,905

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $776 · 10th to 90th $186 to $2,951Professionalmedian $263 · 10th to 90th $126 to $550
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $776professional $263

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
$380.19
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$5,495.41
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,778.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$660.69
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$346.74
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$2,290.87
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$3,548.13
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$524.81
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$758.58
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$602.56
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$457.09
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$616.60
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$575.44
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$2,951.21
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$2,570.40
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$4,466.84
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$549.54
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,479.11
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$549.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$4,466.84
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$478.63

Where Idaho 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

Idaho· 39th of 50

$1,039

$263 physician + $776 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.