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

Montana 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?

$1,125

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,125 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $417 to the doctor who performs it, and $708 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$224 to $617
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$708$339 to $776

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $708 · 10th to 90th $324 to $4,266Professionalmedian $417 · 10th to 90th $209 to $1,023
$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $708professional $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. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$5,248.07
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$1,548.82
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$1,548.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$1,047.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$2,754.23
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64,565.42
Median
$75,857.76
Typical High
$91,201.08
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$691.83
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$302.00
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$691.83
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$794.33
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$794.33
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$831.76
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$851.14
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$794.33

Where Montana 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

Montana· 51st of 51

$1,125

$417 physician + $708 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.