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Nerve Treatment For Lower Back Pain, Single Level

South Dakota 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?

$3,798

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,798 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $562 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,236 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$562$407 to $933
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,236$759 to $3,388

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,236 · 10th to 90th $324 to $3,388Professionalmedian $562 · 10th to 90th $209 to $1,288
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $3,236professional $562

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
$2,630.27
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$3,388.44
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$7,244.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$1,905.46
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$933.25
Avera
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$2,041.74
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$1,288.25
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,047.13
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$2,290.87
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$7,943.28
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$3,311.31
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$954.99
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$933.25
Sanford Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$831.76
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,691.53
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$1,122.02
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$1,148.15

Where South Dakota 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 Dakota· 14th of 51

$3,798

$562 physician + $3,236 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.