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Nerve Treatment For Lower Back Pain, Single Level

Maryland 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?

$986

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $986 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $437 to the doctor who performs it, and $550 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$437$251 to $537
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$550$363 to $912

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $550 · 10th to 90th $182 to $2,754Professionalmedian $437 · 10th to 90th $186 to $891
$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $550professional $437

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
$181.97
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$2,754.23
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$2,884.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$891.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$2,630.27
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$245.47
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$870.96
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$812.83
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$851.14
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$1,621.81
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$794.33
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$707.95

Where Maryland 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

Maryland· 51st of 51

$986

$437 physician + $550 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.