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

Mississippi 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 October 2026.

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

$1,564

Typical total for the visit. In Mississippi, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,564 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $468 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,096 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$468$309 to $724
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,096$851 to $2,188

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,096 · 10th to 90th $562 to $3,890Professionalmedian $468 · 10th to 90th $204 to $977
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $1,096professional $468

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,819.70
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$1,202.26
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$537.03
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,047.13
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$831.76
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,819.70
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$691.83
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$4,897.79
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$912.01
6 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$602.56
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$239.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$891.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$26.92
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$181.97
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$120.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$831.76

Where Mississippi sits

The same service costs 4.6 times more in Colorado 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

Mississippi· 41st of 51

$1,564

$468 physician + $1,096 facility

CO $4,728MT $1,029

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.