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

New Jersey 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?

$5,315

Typical total for the visit. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,315 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $417 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,898 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$417$234 to $603
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,898$3,090 to $6,607

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,898 · 10th to 90th $617 to $10,233Professionalmedian $417 · 10th to 90th $182 to $1,349
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $4,898professional $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
$616.60
Median
$4,786.30
Typical High
$10,232.93
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$12,022.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$1,348.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$3,801.89
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$436.52
AmeriHealth
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$8,912.51
AmeriHealth
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$1,380.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$1,148.15
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$2,691.53
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,981.07
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$10,232.93
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$1,479.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$10,471.29
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$870.96

Where New Jersey 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

New Jersey· 2nd of 51

$5,315

$417 physician + $4,898 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.