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

Illinois 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?

$2,269

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,269 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $407 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,862 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$407$257 to $631
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,862$813 to $3,311

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,862 · 10th to 90th $417 to $5,495Professionalmedian $407 · 10th to 90th $209 to $1,047
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,862professional $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
$416.87
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$5,495.41
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$5,754.40
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$1,122.02
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$1,202.26
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$389.05
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$691.83
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$3,981.07
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$812.83
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$1,819.70
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$776.25
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$2,089.30
Hally Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$562.34
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$645.65
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$6,165.95
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$758.58

Where Illinois 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

Illinois· 33rd of 51

$2,269

$407 physician + $1,862 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.