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

Arizona 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?

$3,038

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,038 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $407 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,630 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$407$240 to $562
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,630$1,445 to $4,677

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,630 · 10th to 90th $417 to $5,623Professionalmedian $407 · 10th to 90th $191 to $1,148
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $2,630professional $407

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
$1,348.96
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$5,888.44
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$7,585.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$1,174.90
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$2,754.23
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$831.76
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$660.69
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$2,951.21
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$724.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$741.31
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$3,715.35
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$6,456.54
Median
$6,456.54
Typical High
$6,456.54
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$3,235.94
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$5,370.32
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$676.08

Where Arizona 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

Arizona· 21st of 51

$3,038

$407 physician + $2,630 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.