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

Missouri 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?

$2,061

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,061 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $363 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$363$229 to $589
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,698$676 to $3,020

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,698 · 10th to 90th $282 to $5,012Professionalmedian $363 · 10th to 90th $186 to $1,175
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,698professional $363

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
$204.17
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$5,495.41
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$7,762.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$1,318.26
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$1,995.26
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$389.05
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$891.25
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$3,981.07
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$398.11
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$588.84
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$630.96
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$794.33
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$4,677.35
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$5,495.41
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$5,495.41
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$3,235.94
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$5,128.61
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$776.25

Where Missouri 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

Missouri· 38th of 51

$2,061

$363 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.