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

Alabama 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 October 2026.

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

$1,666

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,666 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $407 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,259 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$407$302 to $575
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,259$1,230 to $1,259

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,259 · 10th to 90th $832 to $2,884Professionalmedian $407 · 10th to 90th $219 to $661
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,259professional $407

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
$489.78
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,862.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$660.69
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$741.31
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,258.93
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$575.44
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,122.02
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$575.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$660.69
8 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
$151.36
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$323.59
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$131.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$489.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$97.72
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$36.31
Typical High
$66.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$457.09
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$616.60
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$1,862.09

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 4.6 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

Alabama· 36th of 51

$1,666

$407 physician + $1,259 facility

CO $4,728MT $1,029

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.