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

Utah 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?

$3,599

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,599 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $437 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,162 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$437$295 to $832
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,162$2,884 to $3,981

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,162 · 10th to 90th $617 to $4,571Professionalmedian $437 · 10th to 90th $209 to $1,175
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $3,162professional $437

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
$616.60
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$4,570.88
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$5,370.32
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$1,288.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,819.70
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$707.95
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$851.14
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,818.38
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$5,888.44
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$4,168.69
Median
$5,754.40
Typical High
$8,709.64
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$912.01
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$724.44
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$724.44
U of Utah Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$954.99
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$7,079.46
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$645.65

Where Utah 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

Utah· 14th of 51

$3,599

$437 physician + $3,162 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.