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Guided Spine Injection, Neck Or Upper Back, First Level

Indiana 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?

$3,860

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,860 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $229 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,631 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$229$126 to $288
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,631$2,042 to $5,248

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,631 · 10th to 90th $457 to $7,413Professionalmedian $229 · 10th to 90th $115 to $794
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,631professional $229

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
$190.55
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$5,623.41
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$7,079.46
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$870.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$501.19
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$245.47
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$251.19
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,698.24
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$8,317.64
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$117.49
Typical High
$208.93
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$309.03
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$131.83
Typical High
$151.36
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$741.31
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$501.19
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$4,265.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$426.58

Where Indiana 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

Indiana· 5th of 50

$3,860

$229 physician + $3,631 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.