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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 October 2026.

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

$1,720

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,720 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $372 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,349 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$372$219 to $490
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,349$851 to $2,512

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,349 · 10th to 90th $427 to $4,571Professionalmedian $372 · 10th to 90th $170 to $1,660
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,349professional $372

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
$977.24
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$5,623.41
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$489.78
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$446.68
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$2,187.76
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$416.87
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,949.84
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$562.34
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$5,128.61
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$3,235.94
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$5,623.41
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$549.54
7 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
$85.11
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$186.21
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$75.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$281.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$56.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$16.98
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$37.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$263.03
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$257.04

Where Arizona 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

Arizona· 34th of 51

$1,720

$372 physician + $1,349 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.