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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic nervous system procedures

Biopsy of a nerve

CPT 64795the billing code this page is about

Removal of a small sample of nerve tissue so it can be examined in the laboratory.

Hospitals typically charge $2,063 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 453 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,940. Most fall between $370 and $4,257 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
453
States
46
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 453 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
$263$466$2,063$3,926$5,383

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($263 vs $5,383).

How the prices are spread

$201 – $284: 31 hospitals$201$284 – $401: 50 hospitals$401 – $567: 45 hospitals$401$567 – $801: 30 hospitals$801 – $1,133: 17 hospitals$801$1,133 – $1,600: 14 hospitals$1,600 – $2,262: 38 hospitals$1,600$2,262 – $3,196: 65 hospitals$3,196 – $4,516: 70 hospitals$3,196$4,516 – $6,382: 52 hospitals$4,516median $2,063price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (412 of 453 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$201$28431
$284$40150
$401$56745
$567$80130
$801$1,13317
$1,133$1,60014
$1,600$2,26238
$2,262$3,19665
$3,196$4,51670
$4,516$6,38252

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,995
Median cash price$2,063
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.03×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,063.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,766 across 23 hospitalsIL$1,766Wisconsin: median $553 across 24 hospitalsWI$553Michigan: median $595 across 18 hospitalsMI$595New York: median $2,311 across 30 hospitalsNY$2,311Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $626 across 14 hospitalsOR$626Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $466 across 15 hospitalsIA$466Indiana: median $1,620 across 18 hospitalsIN$1,620Ohio: median $729 across 12 hospitalsOH$729Pennsylvania: median $1,946 across 24 hospitalsPA$1,946New Jersey: median $2,607 across 28 hospitalsNJ$2,607Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,926 across 44 hospitalsCA$3,926Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $515 across 17 hospitalsMO$515Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $4,746 across 15 hospitalsNC$4,746South Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $320 across 14 hospitalsOK$320Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,081 across 23 hospitalsTX$3,081Florida: median $1,960 across 10 hospitalsFL$1,960
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,063. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
North Carolina NC15$4,746+130%$455 – $4,746
California CA44$3,926+90%$2,116 – $4,347
Texas TX23$3,081+49%$873 – $3,843
New Jersey NJ28$2,607+26%$2,163 – $5,339
New York NY30$2,311+12%$1,398 – $3,391
Florida FL10$1,960−5%$783 – $4,257
Pennsylvania PA24$1,946−6%$128 – $4,205
Illinois IL23$1,766−14%$395 – $6,382
Indiana IN18$1,620−21%$263 – $2,190
Ohio OH12$729−65%$395 – $783
Oregon OR14$626−70%$363 – $651
Michigan MI18$595−71%$375 – $2,685
Wisconsin WI24$553−73%$553 – $1,318
Missouri MO17$515−75%$300 – $5,639
Iowa IA15$466−77%$466 – $466
Oklahoma OK14$320−84%$320 – $3,981
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $2,063.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care374$2,300$392 – $4,347
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access67$553$333 – $2,304
Ownership
For-profit42$1,689$392 – $3,843
Government72$2,311$390 – $4,746
Non-profit338$2,063$368 – $4,165
System affiliation
Part of a system366$2,279$455 – $4,347
Independent87$651$335 – $2,642

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,004
Median cash price$2,063
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

271 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,041 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,681; most fall between $320 and $3,926.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 271 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
$263$363$1,041$3,926$4,687

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($263 vs $4,687).

Of the 292 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 271 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

453 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 492 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted453
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code492

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 diagnostic nervous system procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Biopsy Nerve.

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, “Biopsy of a nerve (CPT 64795) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-64795-biopsy-of-a-nerve