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

North Carolina 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?

$1,817

Typical total for the visit. In North Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,817 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $437 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,380 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$437$282 to $759
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,380$550 to $4,266

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,380 · 10th to 90th $263 to $5,495Professionalmedian $437 · 10th to 90th $191 to $977
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,380professional $437

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
$436.52
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$5,495.41
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$933.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,778.28
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$707.95
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,202.26
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$1,071.52
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$1,659.59
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$870.96
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,000.00
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$707.95
Oscar Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8,511.38
Median
$8,511.38
Typical High
$8,511.38
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,778.28
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$10,715.19
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$758.58
Wellcare
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,370.32
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$39,810.72
Wellcare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,090.30
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$3,630.78

Where North Carolina 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

North Carolina· 41st of 51

$1,817

$437 physician + $1,380 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.