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Guided Spine Injection, Neck Or Upper Back, First Level

Minnesota 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?

$1,549

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,549 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $427 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,122 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$427$263 to $661
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,122$741 to $2,089

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,122 · 10th to 90th $269 to $2,692Professionalmedian $427 · 10th to 90th $186 to $955
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,122professional $427

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
$128.82
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$2,570.40
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$724.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$2,884.03
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$4,073.80
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$1,778.28
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$9,549.93
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$954.99
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,412.54
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$2,630.27
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,148.15
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$2,089.30
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$912.01
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$2,454.71
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$3,715.35
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$4,073.80
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$1,258.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$851.14

Where Minnesota 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

Minnesota· 35th of 50

$1,549

$427 physician + $1,122 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.