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Nerve Treatment For Lower Back Pain, Single Level

Montana 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?

$1,083

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,083 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $407 to the doctor who performs it, and $676 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$407$229 to $589
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$676$331 to $759

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $676 · 10th to 90th $331 to $2,399Professionalmedian $407 · 10th to 90th $204 to $832
$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $676professional $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
$1,000.00
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$3,548.13
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$4,897.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$891.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$2,754.23
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64,565.42
Median
$75,857.76
Typical High
$91,201.08
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$691.83
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$302.00
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$691.83
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$794.33
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$794.33
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$812.83
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$851.14
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$776.25

Where Montana 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

Montana· 50th of 51

$1,083

$407 physician + $676 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.