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

Wyoming 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?

$4,598

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,598 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $617 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,981 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$617$427 to $1,000
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,981$1,660 to $4,365

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,981 · 10th to 90th $603 to $10,471Professionalmedian $617 · 10th to 90th $191 to $2,239
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,981professional $617

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$4,365.16
Typical High
$4,365.16
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$4,265.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$2,818.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$3,801.89
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$1,659.59
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,412.54
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$2,137.96
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$933.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,630.27
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$10,964.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$1,445.44

Where Wyoming 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

Wyoming· 5th of 51

$4,598

$617 physician + $3,981 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.