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

Rhode Island 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?

$1,947

Typical total for the visit. In Rhode Island, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,947 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $398 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,549 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$398$282 to $550
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,549$1,148 to $3,715

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,549 · 10th to 90th $794 to $5,888Professionalmedian $398 · 10th to 90th $240 to $776
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,549professional $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
$1,513.56
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$3,981.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$549.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$407.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$81.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$28.18
Median
$36.31
Typical High
$54.95
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$616.60
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$426.58
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$16.60
Median
$38.02
Typical High
$53.70
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$16.60
Median
$38.02
Typical High
$53.70
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,778.28
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$776.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$5,888.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$741.31
3 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
$141.25
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$269.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$109.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$380.19

Where Rhode Island 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

Rhode Island· 26th of 51

$1,947

$398 physician + $1,549 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.