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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 July 2026.

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

$2,577

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,577 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $389 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,188 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$389$257 to $501
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,188$1,000 to $3,236

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,188 · 10th to 90th $389 to $4,677Professionalmedian $389 · 10th to 90th $174 to $562
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,188professional $389

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
$389.05
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$6,309.57
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$5,128.61
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$549.54
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$524.81
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$794.33
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$4,466.84
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$549.54
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$1,479.11
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$676.08
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$4,570.88
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$3,801.89
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$3,801.89
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$1,659.59
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$5,754.40
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$602.56

Where Oklahoma 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

Oklahoma· 28th of 51

$2,577

$389 physician + $2,188 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.