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Nerve ablation inside spine bone, each extra level

CPT 64629the billing code this page is about

Add-on charge for heat destruction of the nerve inside each additional vertebral body beyond the first two treated in the same session.

Hospitals typically charge $4,832 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 514 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,400. Most fall between $1,027 and $10,637 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
514
States
43
Filings dated
Jun 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 514 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$493$1,399$4,832$10,354$16,128

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 33× what the cheapest tenth charges ($493 vs $16,128).

How the prices are spread

$385 – $577: 58 hospitals$385$577 – $865: 9 hospitals$865 – $1,296: 30 hospitals$865$1,296 – $1,943: 41 hospitals$1,943 – $2,913: 25 hospitals$1,943$2,913 – $4,366: 38 hospitals$4,366 – $6,545: 73 hospitals$4,366$6,545 – $9,812: 66 hospitals$9,812 – $14,709: 92 hospitals$9,812$14,709 – $22,049: 34 hospitals$14,709median $4,832price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (466 of 514 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$385$57758
$577$8659
$865$1,29630
$1,296$1,94341
$1,943$2,91325
$2,913$4,36638
$4,366$6,54573
$6,545$9,81266
$9,812$14,70992
$14,709$22,04934

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $4,832.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $9,672 across 10 hospitalsID$9,672Montana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,456 across 17 hospitalsMN$2,456Illinois: median $1,750 across 25 hospitalsIL$1,750Wisconsin: median $3,301 across 32 hospitalsWI$3,301Michigan: median $1,914 across 14 hospitalsMI$1,914New York: median $7,719 across 12 hospitalsNY$7,719Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $535 across 14 hospitalsIA$535Indiana: median $1,374 across 23 hospitalsIN$1,374Ohio: median $10,173 across 52 hospitalsOH$10,173Pennsylvania: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $5,855 across 19 hospitalsNJ$5,855Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $656 across 41 hospitalsCA$656Utah: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $6,770 across 18 hospitalsCO$6,770Nebraska: median $2,987 across 11 hospitalsNE$2,987Missouri: median $5,180 across 14 hospitalsMO$5,180Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $5,444 across 13 hospitalsTN$5,444North Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $10,354 across 48 hospitalsTX$10,354Florida: median $11,956 across 40 hospitalsFL$11,956
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,832. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL40$11,956+147%$2,719 – $15,763
Texas TX48$10,354+114%$7,354 – $10,625
Ohio OH52$10,173+111%$5,224 – $22,049
Idaho ID10$9,672+100%$3,500 – $9,672
New York NY12$7,719+60%$855 – $7,851
Colorado CO18$6,770+40%$5,606 – $7,080
New Jersey NJ19$5,855+21%$4,627 – $16,378
Tennessee TN13$5,444+13%$247 – $5,444
Missouri MO14$5,180+7%$4,979 – $35,549
Wisconsin WI32$3,301−32%$1,914 – $8,647
Nebraska NE11$2,987−38%$517 – $4,740
Minnesota MN17$2,456−49%$471 – $2,456
Michigan MI14$1,914−60%$242 – $7,942
Illinois IL25$1,750−64%$434 – $13,494
Indiana IN23$1,374−72%$434 – $2,165
California CA41$656−86%$493 – $4,545
Iowa IA14$535−89%$535 – $1,126
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $4,832.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care430$5,224$1,029 – $11,404
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access79$2,456$557 – $9,672
Ownership
For-profit63$6,851$1,374 – $10,665
Government58$3,888$444 – $6,905
Non-profit389$4,881$1,027 – $11,038
System affiliation
Part of a system453$5,224$1,160 – $10,637
Independent61$3,251$401 – $9,650

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$7,080
Median cash price$4,832
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

349 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $5,224 and the average of the middle 60% is $5,233; most fall between $535 and $10,468.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 349 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$434$973$5,224$10,354$13,931

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 32× what the cheapest tenth charges ($434 vs $13,931).

Of the 393 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 349 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 19 a list price only.

How complete is this

514 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 618 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted514
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here56
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded44
Hospitals that filed this code618

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other OR therapeutic nervous system procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Thermal Dstrj Intraosseous Bvn Ea Addl Lmbr/Sac.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Nerve ablation inside spine bone, each extra level (CPT 64629) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-64629-nerve-ablation-inside-spine-bone-each-extra-level