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

New Mexico 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?

$2,237

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,237 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $417 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,820 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$257 to $575
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,820$575 to $3,236

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,820 · 10th to 90th $282 to $6,026Professionalmedian $417 · 10th to 90th $195 to $1,148
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $1,820professional $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
$281.84
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$2,137.96
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$5,623.41
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$5,623.41
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$1,174.90
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$2,754.23
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$446.68
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$4,466.84
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$512.86
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$812.83
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$363.08
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$691.83
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$776.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$9,772.37
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$794.33

Where New Mexico 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 Mexico· 34th of 51

$2,237

$417 physician + $1,820 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.