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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 July 2026.

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

$2,096

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,096 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $398 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$398$288 to $575
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,698$933 to $3,236

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,698 · 10th to 90th $501 to $4,169Professionalmedian $398 · 10th to 90th $191 to $692
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,698professional $398

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
$478.63
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$3,890.45
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$6,165.95
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$676.08
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$4,265.80
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$309.03
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$4,073.80
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$676.08
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$1,380.38
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$398.11
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$707.95
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$6,025.60
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$724.44

Where Louisiana 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

Louisiana· 37th of 51

$2,096

$398 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.