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

Louisiana 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?

$1,769

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,769 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $389 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,380 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$295 to $575
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,380$1,000 to $2,239

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,380 · 10th to 90th $832 to $3,715Professionalmedian $389 · 10th to 90th $224 to $676
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,380professional $389

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
$389.05
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$3,467.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$630.96
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$416.87
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$3,548.13
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$676.08
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$1,380.38
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,659.59
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$630.96
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$5,754.40
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$724.44
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
$162.18
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$302.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$120.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$446.68
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$89.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$60.26
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$416.87

Where Louisiana 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

Louisiana· 33rd of 51

$1,769

$389 physician + $1,380 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.