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Guided Spine Injection, Neck Or Upper Back, First Level

Oklahoma 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?

$2,230

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,230 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $234 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,995 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$234$135 to $316
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,995$1,000 to $3,162

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,995 · 10th to 90th $245 to $4,571Professionalmedian $234 · 10th to 90th $117 to $347
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,995professional $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
$234.42
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$6,456.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$251.19
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$4,466.84
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$346.74
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$776.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$389.05
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$2,398.83
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$1,995.26
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,290.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$346.74

Where Oklahoma 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

Oklahoma· 22nd of 50

$2,230

$234 physician + $1,995 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.