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Nerve Treatment For Lower Back Pain, Single Level

Louisiana 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?

$2,058

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,058 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $398 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$398$282 to $575
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,660$933 to $3,236

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,660 · 10th to 90th $501 to $4,365Professionalmedian $398 · 10th to 90th $191 to $692
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,660professional $398

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
$446.68
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$3,890.45
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$8,709.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$676.08
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$7,244.36
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$446.68
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$776.25
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$4,570.88
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$691.83
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,412.54
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$398.11
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$691.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$6,025.60
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$724.44

Where Louisiana 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

Louisiana· 37th of 51

$2,058

$398 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.