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Nerve Treatment For Lower Back Pain, Single Level

South Carolina 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?

$3,273

Typical total for the visit. In South Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,273 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $389 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,884 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$389$224 to $513
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,884$525 to $5,012

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,884 · 10th to 90th $251 to $9,772Professionalmedian $389 · 10th to 90th $186 to $851
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $2,884professional $389

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
$223.87
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$16,595.87
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$912.01
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$1,479.11
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$794.33
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$954.99
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$5,754.40
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$549.54
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,513.56
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$794.33
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$794.33
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,548.82
Median
$10,232.93
Typical High
$16,595.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$707.95

Where South Carolina 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

South Carolina· 17th of 51

$3,273

$389 physician + $2,884 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.