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Guided Spine Injection, Neck Or Upper Back, First Level

South Carolina 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?

$1,016

Typical total for the visit. In South Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,016 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $240 to the doctor who performs it, and $776 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$240$151 to $309
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$776$309 to $3,020

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $776 · 10th to 90th $151 to $9,120Professionalmedian $240 · 10th to 90th $115 to $589
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $776professional $240

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
$151.36
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$9,772.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$630.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$436.52
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$426.58
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$398.11
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$3,090.30
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$416.87
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$776.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$489.78
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$524.81
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$7,762.47
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$436.52

Where South Carolina 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

South Carolina· 40th of 50

$1,016

$240 physician + $776 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.