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

Massachusetts 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?

$1,936

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,936 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $457 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,479 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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$457$295 to $692
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,479$288 to $2,818

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,479 · 10th to 90th $224 to $4,266Professionalmedian $457 · 10th to 90th $209 to $1,122
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,479professional $457

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
$457.09
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$3,715.35
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$4,265.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$977.24
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,548.82
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$39,810.72
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$1,318.26
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$524.81
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$1,202.26
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$1,047.13
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$3,311.31
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$851.14
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$9,772.37
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$1,174.90
Health New England
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,548.82
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$5,011.87
Health New England
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$758.58
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$39,810.72
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$1,318.26
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$8,709.64
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$1,230.27

Where Massachusetts 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

Massachusetts· 40th of 51

$1,936

$457 physician + $1,479 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.