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Nerve Stimulation Wire Placed Through The Skin

Louisiana 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?

$6,679

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,679 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $513 to the doctor who performs it, and $6,166 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$513$380 to $2,455
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$6,166$3,467 to $7,413

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,166 · 10th to 90th $1,259 to $10,965Professionalmedian $513 · 10th to 90th $245 to $2,951
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $6,166professional $513

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
$501.19
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$3,467.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$2,691.53
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,495.41
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$12,022.64
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$3,090.30
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6,309.57
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$6,309.57
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$9,772.37
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$2,951.21
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$12,589.25
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$2,290.87
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
$245.47
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$1,288.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$512.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$1,949.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$117.49
Typical High
$389.05
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$257.04
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$1,819.70

Where Louisiana 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

Louisiana· 18th of 51

$6,679

$513 physician + $6,166 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.