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Guided Spine Injection, Neck Or Upper Back, First Level

Kansas 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?

$1,783

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,783 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $234 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,549 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$234$186 to $417
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,549$692 to $4,074

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,549 · 10th to 90th $263 to $7,413Professionalmedian $234 · 10th to 90th $126 to $457
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,549professional $234

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
$331.13
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$4,168.69
Median
$4,168.69
Typical High
$4,168.69
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$436.52
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$275.42
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,122.02
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$457.09
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$331.13
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$467.74
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$2,187.76
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$1,995.26
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$2,454.71
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$416.87

Where Kansas 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

Kansas· 29th of 50

$1,783

$234 physician + $1,549 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.