Heat Treatment Of A Nerve Inside Another Vertebra

Nationwide rates for HCPCS 64629

Passes a probe through the skin into a further spinal bone and uses heat to destroy a small nerve running inside it that carries pain signals from the damaged bone. Interrupting that nerve can ease long-standing back pain coming from the vertebra itself rather than from a disc or joint. It is billed in addition to the main procedure when more than one spinal bone is treated.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Heat Treatment Of A Nerve Inside Another Vertebra cost?

$3,600

Typical total for the visit. Nationwide, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,600 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $288 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,311 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

8% physician fee92% facility fee

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 52 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the bill	Who charges it	Typical	Range
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it	The doctor who performs it	$288	$209 to $437
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center	The hospital or surgery center	$3,311	$1,096 to $6,310

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,311 · 10th to 90th $282 to $10,471Professionalmedian $288 · 10th to 90th $174 to $1,349

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	Facility/Professional	Modifier	Typical Low	Median	Typical High
Aetna Setting Facility Modifier Global Typical Low $501.19 Median $3,162.28 Typical High $9,549.93	Facility	Global	$501.19	$3,162.28	$9,549.93
BCBS Setting Facility Modifier Global Typical Low $3,630.78 Median $6,025.60 Typical High $13,489.63	Facility	Global	$3,630.78	$6,025.60	$13,489.63
Cigna Setting Facility Modifier Global Typical Low $302.00 Median $588.84 Typical High $1,862.09	Facility	Global	$302.00	$588.84	$1,862.09
United Setting Facility Modifier Global Typical Low $251.19 Median $1,174.90 Typical High $3,630.78	Facility	Global	$251.19	$1,174.90	$3,630.78

What it costs in each state

The same service costs 24.4 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

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CA $5,828MD $238

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.