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Teased nerve fiber preparation for microscope study

CPT 88362the billing code this page is about

Laboratory work in which individual nerve fibers are separated and mounted on slides so they can be examined under a microscope; billed per specimen.

Hospitals typically charge $567 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 678 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $614. Most fall between $220 and $1,212 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
678
States
48
Filings dated
Dec 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 678 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
$117$269$567$1,054$1,982

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($117 vs $1,982).

How the prices are spread

$79 – $112: 32 hospitals$79$112 – $160: 32 hospitals$160 – $229: 52 hospitals$160$229 – $326: 71 hospitals$326 – $466: 74 hospitals$326$466 – $665: 82 hospitals$665 – $950: 89 hospitals$665$950 – $1,356: 88 hospitals$1,356 – $1,937: 51 hospitals$1,356$1,937 – $2,765: 41 hospitals$1,937median $567price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (612 of 678 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$79$11232
$112$16032
$160$22952
$229$32671
$326$46674
$466$66582
$665$95089
$950$1,35688
$1,356$1,93751
$1,937$2,76541

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$823
Median cash price$567
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.69×

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 $567.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,511 across 13 hospitalsWA$1,511Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $230 across 11 hospitalsMN$230Illinois: median $602 across 23 hospitalsIL$602Wisconsin: median $1,167 across 22 hospitalsWI$1,167Michigan: median $1,108 across 23 hospitalsMI$1,108New York: median $956 across 31 hospitalsNY$956Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $787 across 14 hospitalsIA$787Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $537 across 23 hospitalsOH$537Pennsylvania: median $356 across 44 hospitalsPA$356New Jersey: median $905 across 15 hospitalsNJ$905Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,982 across 37 hospitalsCA$1,982Utah: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $713 across 15 hospitalsKY$713West Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: median $67 across 10 hospitalsVA$67Maryland: median $436 across 19 hospitalsMD$436Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $942 across 20 hospitalsAZ$942New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $499 across 10 hospitalsKS$499Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $253 across 13 hospitalsTN$253North Carolina: median $387 across 28 hospitalsNC$387South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $181 across 16 hospitalsOK$181Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $300 across 32 hospitalsGA$300Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $469 across 85 hospitalsTX$469Florida: median $270 across 62 hospitalsFL$270
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $567. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA37$1,982+250%$418 – $1,982
Washington WA13$1,511+167%$813 – $1,529
Wisconsin WI22$1,167+106%$750 – $1,189
Michigan MI23$1,108+95%$107 – $1,701
New York NY31$956+69%$159 – $967
Arizona AZ20$942+66%$329 – $1,063
New Jersey NJ15$905+60%$893 – $1,042
Iowa IA14$787+39%$787 – $787
Kentucky KY15$713+26%$713 – $3,280
Illinois IL23$602+6%$188 – $843
Ohio OH23$537−5%$400 – $1,682
Kansas KS10$499−12%$101 – $1,273
Texas TX85$469−17%$109 – $603
Maryland MD19$436−23%$268 – $729
North Carolina NC28$387−32%$297 – $4,954
Pennsylvania PA44$356−37%$82 – $1,381
Georgia GA32$300−47%$300 – $698
Florida FL62$270−52%$118 – $1,012
Tennessee TN13$253−55%$188 – $567
Minnesota MN11$230−59%$230 – $304
Oklahoma OK16$181−68%$181 – $691
Virginia VA10$67−88%$67 – $67
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not 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 $567.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care604$567$221 – $1,231
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access55$448$107 – $1,167
Ownership
For-profit113$567$199 – $1,201
Government67$553$190 – $967
Non-profit497$567$221 – $1,304
System affiliation
Part of a system610$567$204 – $1,242
Independent68$537$250 – $1,033

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$945
Median cash price$567
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

444 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $502 and the average of the middle 60% is $585; most fall between $199 and $1,392.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 444 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
$118$249$502$1,063$1,982

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($118 vs $1,982).

Of the 503 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 444 gave a usable cash price; 38 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 21 a list price only.

How complete is this

678 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (17%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 740 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted678
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here35
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded25
Hospitals that filed this code740

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

Related procedures

Part of the Pathology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Nerve Teasing Preparations|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT.

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, “Teased nerve fiber preparation for microscope study (CPT 88362) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-88362-teased-nerve-fiber-preparation-for-microscope-study