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Nerve Ablation For A Neck Or Upper Back Joint, One Level

Alaska rates for HCPCS 64633

A small nerve that carries pain signals from a spinal joint in the neck or upper back is deadened using heat generated by a needle-based device, guided by real-time imaging, to relieve chronic pain from that joint. This covers treatment of one joint level.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Nerve Ablation For A Neck Or Upper Back Joint, One Level cost?

$1,509

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,509 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $575 to the doctor who performs it, and $933 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$575$407 to $1,230
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$933$537 to $1,995

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $933 · 10th to 90th $214 to $5,754Professionalmedian $575 · 10th to 90th $214 to $1,995
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $933professional $575

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
$758.58
Median
$5,754.40
Typical High
$12,022.64
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$6,025.60
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$6,025.60
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$1,230.27
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$851.14
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,318.26
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,995.26
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$2,137.96
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$2,290.87
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,995.26
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$1,023.29
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,548.82
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$2,137.96

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 4.8 times more in Indiana 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

Alaska· 46th of 51

$1,509

$575 physician + $933 facility

IN $5,410MT $1,125

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.