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Guided Spine Injection, Neck Or Upper Back, First Level

Oregon 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?

$792

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $792 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $302 to the doctor who performs it, and $490 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$302$219 to $513
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$490$324 to $661

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $490 · 10th to 90th $204 to $3,236Professionalmedian $302 · 10th to 90th $126 to $776
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $490professional $302

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
$2,290.87
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$1,513.56
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$1,122.02
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$524.81
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$549.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$676.08
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$707.95
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$588.84
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$616.60
Pacific Source
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$524.81
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$588.84
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$660.69
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,290.87
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$3,630.78
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$3,388.44
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$5,495.41
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$741.31
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$4,897.79
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$616.60
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$302.00

Where Oregon 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

Oregon· 45th of 50

$792

$302 physician + $490 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.