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

Kentucky 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?

$2,037

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,037 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $339 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,698 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$339$219 to $457
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,698$708 to $2,570

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,698 · 10th to 90th $288 to $3,388Professionalmedian $339 · 10th to 90th $182 to $741
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,698professional $339

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
$190.55
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$3,890.45
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$19,952.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$776.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$758.58
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$660.69
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$602.56
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$2,951.21
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$302.00
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$457.09
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$309.03
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$549.54
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$302.00
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$2,187.76
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$354.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$6,025.60
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$707.95

Where Kentucky 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

Kentucky· 39th of 51

$2,037

$339 physician + $1,698 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.