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

Georgia 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?

$3,956

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,956 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $407 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,548 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$407$275 to $575
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,548$1,660 to $4,786

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,548 · 10th to 90th $1,000 to $7,079Professionalmedian $407 · 10th to 90th $224 to $1,000
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,548professional $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
$512.86
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$7,585.78
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$3,890.45
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$1,174.90
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$1,819.70
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$891.25
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$1,348.96
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$5,888.44
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$575.44
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$851.14
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$257.04
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$602.56
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$1,258.93
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$954.99
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$2,290.87
Oscar Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,168.69
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$8,709.64
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$776.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$6,918.31
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$851.14

Where Georgia 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

Georgia· 12th of 51

$3,956

$407 physician + $3,548 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.