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

Florida 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?

$1,438

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,438 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $316 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,122 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$316$195 to $407
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,122$631 to $3,090

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,122 · 10th to 90th $407 to $7,413Professionalmedian $316 · 10th to 90th $135 to $525
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $1,122professional $316

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
$354.81
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$10,964.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$512.86
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$457.09
AvMed
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$9,772.37
AvMed
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$489.78
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,819.70
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$512.86
Florida Blue
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$7,413.10
Florida Blue
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$489.78
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$30.90
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$562.34
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$7,585.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$602.56
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$354.81
8 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
$97.72
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$208.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$83.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$316.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$28.84
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$63.10
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$19.50
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$41.69
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$295.12
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$660.69
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$416.87

Where Florida 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

Florida· 42nd of 51

$1,438

$316 physician + $1,122 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.