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

Arkansas 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?

$1,677

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,677 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $389 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,288 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$389$257 to $501
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,288$741 to $1,820

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,288 · 10th to 90th $417 to $2,512Professionalmedian $389 · 10th to 90th $191 to $692
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,288professional $389

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
$281.84
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,862.09
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$7,079.46
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$645.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,023.29
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$870.96
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,412.54
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$2,511.89
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$645.65
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$245.47
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$489.78
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$794.33
Qualchoice
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$1,000.00
Qualchoice
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,621.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$5,495.41
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$758.58

Where Arkansas 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

Arkansas· 45th of 51

$1,677

$389 physician + $1,288 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.