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

Tennessee 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?

$2,806

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,806 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $407 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$407$275 to $575
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,399$1,349 to $3,311

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,399 · 10th to 90th $575 to $4,898Professionalmedian $407 · 10th to 90th $214 to $912
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $2,399professional $407

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
$512.86
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$4,073.80
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$5,128.61
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$870.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,698.24
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$891.25
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$954.99
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,548.82
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$3,981.07
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$831.76
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$30.20
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$724.44
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,370.32
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$39,810.72
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,090.30
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$3,630.78
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$6,309.57
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$776.25

Where Tennessee 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

Tennessee· 24th of 51

$2,806

$407 physician + $2,399 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.