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

Maryland 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?

$1,329

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,329 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $417 to the doctor who performs it, and $912 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$417$234 to $490
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$912$741 to $3,090

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $912 · 10th to 90th $479 to $3,236Professionalmedian $417 · 10th to 90th $191 to $955
$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $912professional $417

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$3,235.94
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,479.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$1,023.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$2,754.23
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$245.47
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$870.96
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$812.83
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$851.14
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$1,621.81
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$794.33
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$707.95

Where Maryland 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

Maryland· 48th of 51

$1,329

$417 physician + $912 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.