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Guided Spine Injection, Neck Or Upper Back, First Level

Illinois 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?

$1,626

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,626 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $245 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,380 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$245$166 to $380
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,380$457 to $3,020

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,380 · 10th to 90th $245 to $5,129Professionalmedian $245 · 10th to 90th $123 to $525
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,380professional $245

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
$218.78
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$5,248.07
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,621.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$660.69
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$562.34
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$245.47
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$251.19
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$2,691.53
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$512.86
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$933.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$467.74
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$1,348.96
Hally Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$346.74
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$398.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$3,548.13
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$489.78

Where Illinois 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

Illinois· 33rd of 50

$1,626

$245 physician + $1,380 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.