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Guided Spine Injection, Neck Or Upper Back, First Level

Utah 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?

$3,295

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,295 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $275 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,020 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$275$186 to $575
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,020$977 to $3,981

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,020 · 10th to 90th $372 to $4,571Professionalmedian $275 · 10th to 90th $126 to $851
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $3,020professional $275

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
$186.21
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$4,570.88
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$2,630.27
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$851.14
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$2,137.96
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$446.68
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$501.19
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$2,691.53
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$3,981.07
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$549.54
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$446.68
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$1,023.29
U of Utah Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$537.03
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$5,128.61
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$371.54

Where Utah 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

Utah· 9th of 50

$3,295

$275 physician + $3,020 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.