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Nerve Stimulation Wire Placed Through The Skin

Iowa rates for HCPCS 64555

A thin electrode wire is placed through the skin next to a nerve outside the spinal cord, so mild electrical pulses can interrupt pain signals traveling along that nerve. It may be placed as a temporary trial to see whether stimulation helps, or as the lead for a longer-term implanted system. No open incision is needed to position the wire.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Nerve Stimulation Wire Placed Through The Skin cost?

$6,545

Typical total for the visit. In Iowa, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,545 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,175 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,370 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$1,175$589 to $4,467
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,370$2,512 to $10,000

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,370 · 10th to 90th $589 to $14,125Professionalmedian $1,175 · 10th to 90th $309 to $5,370
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $5,370professional $1,175

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$6,760.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$2,884.03
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6,309.57
Median
$9,549.93
Typical High
$12,022.64
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$5,011.87
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$2,691.53
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$4,677.35
Typical High
$14,454.40
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$15,848.93
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$4,466.84
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6,309.57
Median
$9,549.93
Typical High
$12,022.64
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$6,025.60
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$16,982.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$4,365.16
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$5,248.07
6 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$1,445.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$575.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$2,137.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$436.52
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$30.90
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$288.40
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$1,995.26

Where Iowa sits

The same service costs 13.1 times more in Colorado than in Montana. 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

Iowa· 20th of 51

$6,545

$1,175 physician + $5,370 facility

CO $15,603MT $1,192

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.