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Nerve Treatment For Lower Back Pain, Single Level

Illinois 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?

$2,067

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,067 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $407 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,660 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$407$229 to $603
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,660$631 to $3,236

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,660 · 10th to 90th $302 to $5,248Professionalmedian $407 · 10th to 90th $186 to $851
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,660professional $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
$269.15
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$5,248.07
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$6,165.95
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$1,047.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$2,344.23
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$467.74
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$645.65
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$3,981.07
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$831.76
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$1,819.70
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$758.58
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$2,570.40
Hally Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$575.44
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$645.65
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$6,165.95
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$758.58

Where Illinois 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

Illinois· 35th of 51

$2,067

$407 physician + $1,660 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.