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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 October 2026.

How much does Nerve Ablation For A Neck Or Upper Back Joint, One Level cost?

$2,834

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,834 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $490 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$490$347 to $692
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,344$1,202 to $2,455

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,344 · 10th to 90th $891 to $4,571Professionalmedian $490 · 10th to 90th $245 to $1,660
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $2,344professional $490

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
$323.59
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$691.83
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$436.52
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$2,454.71
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$724.44
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,288.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$602.56
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$39,810.72
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$3,235.94
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$4,570.88
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$645.65
6 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
$95.50
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$346.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$38.02
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$138.04
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$512.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$28.84
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$102.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$31.62
Typical High
$69.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$478.63

Where Kansas 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

Kansas· 12th of 51

$2,834

$490 physician + $2,344 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.