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Nerve Treatment For Lower Back Pain, Single Level

Tennessee 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 October 2026.

How much does Nerve Treatment For Lower Back Pain, Single Level cost?

$2,186

Typical total for the visit. In Tennessee, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,186 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $407 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,778 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$282 to $603
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,778$1,122 to $2,951

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,778 · 10th to 90th $832 to $4,169Professionalmedian $407 · 10th to 90th $214 to $2,818
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,778professional $407

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$7,585.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$575.44
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$758.58
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$3,467.37
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$645.65
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$3,801.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$630.96
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,162.28
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$5,128.61
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$741.31
7 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$275.42
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$41.69
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$109.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$416.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$31.62
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$83.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$20.89
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$54.95
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$389.05
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$1,122.02

Where Tennessee sits

The same service costs 4.6 times more in Colorado than in Montana. 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

Tennessee· 19th of 51

$2,186

$407 physician + $1,778 facility

CO $4,720MT $1,020

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.