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

Oklahoma 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 October 2026.

How much does Nerve Ablation For A Neck Or Upper Back Joint, One Level cost?

$2,797

Typical total for the visit. In Oklahoma, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,797 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $398 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,399 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$398$269 to $537
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,399$794 to $3,890

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,399 · 10th to 90th $389 to $5,623Professionalmedian $398 · 10th to 90th $219 to $759
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,399professional $398

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$6,760.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$389.05
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$524.81
BCBS Oklahoma
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$4,677.35
BCBS Oklahoma
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$549.54
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,258.93
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$512.86
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$6,025.60
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$3,235.94
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$6,025.60
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$602.56
7 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$194.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$77.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$295.12
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$25.70
Median
$31.62
Typical High
$58.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$16.98
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$38.90
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$275.42
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$794.33

Where Oklahoma sits

The same service costs 4.6 times more in Colorado 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

Oklahoma· 13th of 51

$2,797

$398 physician + $2,399 facility

CO $4,728MT $1,029

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.