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

Kansas 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?

$2,733

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,733 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $389 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,344 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$389$316 to $575
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,344$1,288 to $3,631

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,344 · 10th to 90th $398 to $6,457Professionalmedian $389 · 10th to 90th $182 to $724
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,344professional $389

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
$549.54
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$6,456.54
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$2,454.71
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$645.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$489.78
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$436.52
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$645.65
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$2,454.71
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$724.44
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$630.96
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$707.95
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$4,168.69
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$3,235.94
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$4,168.69
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$676.08

Where Kansas 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

Kansas· 26th of 51

$2,733

$389 physician + $2,344 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.