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

Minnesota 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?

$2,848

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,848 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $661 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,188 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$661$417 to $1,047
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,188$1,230 to $3,548

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,188 · 10th to 90th $447 to $5,754Professionalmedian $661 · 10th to 90th $275 to $1,514
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,188professional $661

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
$186.21
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$4,365.16
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,230.27
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$1,148.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$758.58
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$10,471.29
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$3,890.45
Median
$7,413.10
Typical High
$20,892.96
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$1,548.82
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$2,344.23
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$4,365.16
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,862.09
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$3,388.44
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,621.81
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$4,265.80
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$6,760.83
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,995.26
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$537.03
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$8,912.51
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$1,348.96

Where Minnesota 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

Minnesota· 23rd of 51

$2,848

$661 physician + $2,188 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.