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

Iowa 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?

$2,738

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,738 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $447 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,291 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$447$295 to $708
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,291$891 to $3,802

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,291 · 10th to 90th $427 to $6,457Professionalmedian $447 · 10th to 90th $209 to $1,288
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,291professional $447

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
$398.11
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$6,760.83
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$5,128.61
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$1,288.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$891.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$1,288.25
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$1,258.93
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$5,754.40
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,659.59
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,148.15
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,122.02
Oscar Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$933.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,818.38
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$6,456.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$1,096.48
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$954.99

Where Iowa 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

Iowa· 25th of 51

$2,738

$447 physician + $2,291 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.