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Guided Spine Injection, Neck Or Upper Back, First Level

New Jersey 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?

$4,822

Typical total for the visit. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,822 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $251 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,571 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$251$132 to $407
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,571$2,692 to $6,607

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,571 · 10th to 90th $372 to $10,233Professionalmedian $251 · 10th to 90th $115 to $1,122
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $4,571professional $251

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
$295.12
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$10,232.93
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$12,882.50
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$1,513.56
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$524.81
AmeriHealth
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$7,079.46
AmeriHealth
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$707.95
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$758.58
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$478.63
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$4,570.88
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$870.96
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,698.24
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$6,760.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$501.19

Where New Jersey 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

New Jersey· 2nd of 50

$4,822

$251 physician + $4,571 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.