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Application of a skin-surface nerve stimulator

CPT 64550the billing code this page is about

Placement of stimulating electrodes on the skin over a nerve to deliver electrical stimulation; no incision is made.

Hospitals typically charge $58 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 236 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $61. Most fall between $27 and $108 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
236
States
38
Filings dated
Jul 2024 – 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 236 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
$13$32$58$96$170

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $170).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $14: 15 hospitals$10$14 – $20: 5 hospitals$20 – $28: 17 hospitals$20$28 – $39: 33 hospitals$39 – $55: 25 hospitals$39$55 – $78: 42 hospitals$78 – $111: 45 hospitals$78$111 – $157: 15 hospitals$157 – $222: 9 hospitals$157$222 – $315: 8 hospitals$222median $58price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (214 of 236 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$1415
$14$205
$20$2817
$28$3933
$39$5525
$55$7842
$78$11145
$111$15715
$157$2229
$222$3158

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $58.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $122 across 17 hospitalsIL$122Wisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $58 across 15 hospitalsIA$58Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $108 across 17 hospitalsPA$108New Jersey: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $10 across 11 hospitalsCO$10Nebraska: median $62 across 14 hospitalsNE$62Missouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $82 across 15 hospitalsKS$82Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $13 across 11 hospitalsOK$13Louisiana: median $57 across 11 hospitalsLA$57Mississippi: median $34 across 10 hospitalsMS$34Alabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $58. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Illinois IL17$122+113%$79 – $194
Pennsylvania PA17$108+88%$96 – $341
Kansas KS15$82+42%$31 – $315
Nebraska NE14$62+8%$58 – $84
Iowa IA15$58+1%$36 – $71
Louisiana LA11$57−1%$28 – $107
Mississippi MS10$34−41%$30 – $43
Oklahoma OK11$13−78%$13 – $13
Colorado CO11$10−83%$10 – $10
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $58.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care127$50$21 – $101
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access103$62$35 – $115
Ownership
For-profit17fewer than 20 hospitals
Government60$72$36 – $109
Non-profit159$58$22 – $108
System affiliation
Part of a system175$58$27 – $108
Independent61$56$29 – $114

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$87
Median cash price$58
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

152 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $52 and the average of the middle 60% is $55; most fall between $24 and $101.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 152 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
$13$29$52$82$139

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $139).

Of the 167 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 152 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 9 a list price only.

How complete is this

236 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 265 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted236
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here12
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded17
Hospitals that filed this code265

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 5, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Other Professional.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Application of a skin-surface nerve stimulator (CPT 64550) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-64550-application-of-a-skin-surface-nerve-stimulator