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Nerve Treatment For Lower Back Pain, Single Level

Michigan 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?

$1,956

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,956 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $407 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,549 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$251 to $550
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,549$550 to $4,074

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,549 · 10th to 90th $257 to $4,898Professionalmedian $407 · 10th to 90th $186 to $776
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,549professional $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
$257.04
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$4,265.80
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$8,317.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$776.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$2,754.23
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$436.52
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,174.90
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$398.11
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$776.25
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$1,148.15
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$338.84
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$537.03
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$645.65
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$4,897.79
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$2,691.53
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$2,691.53
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$724.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,548.82
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$7,244.36
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$630.96

Where Michigan 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

Michigan· 39th of 51

$1,956

$407 physician + $1,549 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.