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Guided Spine Injection, Neck Or Upper Back, First Level

Mississippi 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?

$993

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $993 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $234 to the doctor who performs it, and $759 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$132 to $380
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$759$501 to $1,122

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $759 · 10th to 90th $234 to $1,820Professionalmedian $234 · 10th to 90th $120 to $603
$50$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $759professional $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
$120.23
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$1,819.70
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$602.56
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$724.44
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$316.23
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$181.97
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$616.60
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$512.86
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$1,174.90
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$478.63
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,819.70
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$512.86

Where Mississippi 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

Mississippi· 41st of 50

$993

$234 physician + $759 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.