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

Delaware 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?

$3,643

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,643 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $407 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,236 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$407$191 to $457
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,236$1,000 to $5,012

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,236 · 10th to 90th $513 to $5,012Professionalmedian $407 · 10th to 90th $182 to $562
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $3,236professional $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. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$7,244.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$512.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$851.14
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,047.13
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$812.83
Highmark BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$436.52
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,479.11
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$660.69

Where Delaware 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

Delaware· 13th of 51

$3,643

$407 physician + $3,236 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.