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Nerve Treatment For Lower Back Pain, Single Level

Alabama rates for HCPCS 64635

This is a procedure that uses heat generated by a needle-based device to disable a small nerve carrying pain signals from a joint connecting two vertebrae in the lower back, at a single spinal level. It is used to provide longer-lasting relief for back pain coming from that joint than a numbing injection alone.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Nerve Treatment For Lower Back Pain, Single Level cost?

$1,660

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,660 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $372 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,288 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$372$229 to $501
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,288$661 to $2,188

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,288 · 10th to 90th $417 to $3,162Professionalmedian $372 · 10th to 90th $195 to $661
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,288professional $372

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
$302.00
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$2,187.76
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$3,467.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$660.69
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$2,754.23
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$426.58
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,122.02
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,905.46
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$1,778.28
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$2,818.38
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$562.34
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$812.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$724.44

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 5.5 times more in Delaware than in Maryland. 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

Alabama· 43rd of 51

$1,660

$372 physician + $1,288 facility

DE $5,392MD $986

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.