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

South Carolina 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?

$1,298

Typical total for the visit. In South Carolina, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,298 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $427 to the doctor who performs it, and $871 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$427$251 to $513
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$871$646 to $1,738

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $871 · 10th to 90th $501 to $4,266Professionalmedian $427 · 10th to 90th $66 to $646
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $871professional $427

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
$223.87
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$16,595.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$588.84
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$776.25
BCBS South Carolina
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$2,818.38
BCBS South Carolina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$446.68
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,479.11
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$691.83
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$1,174.90
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$831.76
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$660.69
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$14,791.08
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$707.95
9 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
$112.20
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$251.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$102.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$380.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$75.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$22.39
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$50.12
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$354.81
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$1,202.26
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,258.93
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
51 · Multiple procedures
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$416.87

Where South Carolina 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

South Carolina· 48th of 51

$1,298

$427 physician + $871 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.