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Nerve Treatment For Lower Back Pain, Single Level

Arizona 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 October 2026.

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

$1,610

Typical total for the visit. In Arizona, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,610 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $380 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,230 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$380$209 to $490
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,230$794 to $2,512

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,230 · 10th to 90th $316 to $4,571Professionalmedian $380 · 10th to 90th $170 to $1,660
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,230professional $380

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
$977.24
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$5,623.41
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$489.78
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$457.09
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$1,513.56
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$416.87
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$3,801.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$562.34
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$5,128.61
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$3,311.31
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$5,623.41
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$537.03
7 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
$85.11
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$190.55
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$75.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$281.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$56.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$16.98
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$38.02
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$263.03
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$676.08

Where Arizona 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

Arizona· 40th of 51

$1,610

$380 physician + $1,230 facility

CO $4,720MT $1,020

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.