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Additional Level Of A Lower Back Nerve Root Injection

Colorado rates for HCPCS 64484

This covers treating an additional level of the spine, beyond the first, with an injection of numbing medicine and often a steroid near a nerve root as it exits the lower spine. It is used to help reduce pain, numbness, or other symptoms caused by irritation of that nerve, and is billed together with the injection at the first spinal level.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Additional Level Of A Lower Back Nerve Root Injection cost?

$680

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $680 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $105 to the doctor who performs it, and $575 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$105$56.23 to $158
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$575$110 to $3,090

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $575 · 10th to 90th $62 to $5,888Professionalmedian $105 · 10th to 90th $49 to $275
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $575professional $105

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
$85.11
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$6,025.60
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$2,089.30
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$9.77
Median
$9.77
Typical High
$21.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$275.42
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$275.42
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$120.23
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$512.86
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$77.62
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$15.85
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$208.93
Denver HMP
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$229.09
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$660.69
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$257.04
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$89.13
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$2,691.53
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$208.93

Where Colorado sits

The same service costs 25.4 times more in California 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

Colorado· 38th of 51

$680

$105 physician + $575 facility

CA $3,907MD $154

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.