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

North Dakota 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?

$2,442

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,442 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $447 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,995 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$447$324 to $933
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,995$427 to $3,467

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,995 · 10th to 90th $224 to $3,548Professionalmedian $447 · 10th to 90th $214 to $1,047
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,995professional $447

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
$223.87
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$3,548.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$1,047.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$851.14
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$1,071.52
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,621.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$1,202.26
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$3,311.31
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$4,168.69
Median
$4,168.69
Typical High
$4,168.69
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,659.59
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$3,890.45
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$954.99

Where North Dakota 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 Dakota· 31st of 51

$2,442

$447 physician + $1,995 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.