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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 July 2026.

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

$1,743

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,743 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $363 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,380 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$363$214 to $468
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,380$933 to $2,291

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,380 · 10th to 90th $617 to $3,467Professionalmedian $363 · 10th to 90th $186 to $661
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,380professional $363

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
$489.78
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$3,235.94
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$660.69
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$645.65
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$741.31
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$630.96
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,905.46
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$1,778.28
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$2,818.38
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$562.34
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$812.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$724.44

Where Alabama 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

Alabama· 43rd of 51

$1,743

$363 physician + $1,380 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.