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Procedure price report · Electroencephalogram (EEG)

Setup and takedown for long-term EEG brain recording

CPT 95700the billing code this page is about

Covers the technologist's work to attach and remove the electrodes and cameras for extended brain wave recording, plus patient instruction; the recording hours themselves are billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $596 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,638 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $640. Most fall between $292 and $1,182 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,638
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 1,638 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
$205$342$596$1,027$2,021

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($205 vs $2,021).

How the prices are spread

$170 – $225: 128 hospitals$170$225 – $299: 140 hospitals$299 – $396: 130 hospitals$299$396 – $525: 222 hospitals$525 – $697: 265 hospitals$525$697 – $924: 196 hospitals$924 – $1,226: 166 hospitals$924$1,226 – $1,626: 88 hospitals$1,626 – $2,156: 70 hospitals$1,626$2,156 – $2,860: 73 hospitals$2,156median $596price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,478 of 1,638 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$170$225128
$225$299140
$299$396130
$396$525222
$525$697265
$697$924196
$924$1,226166
$1,226$1,62688
$1,626$2,15670
$2,156$2,86073

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$221
Median cash price$596
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.7×

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 $596.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $632 across 36 hospitalsWA$632Idaho: median $743 across 14 hospitalsID$743Montana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $415 across 35 hospitalsMN$415Illinois: median $556 across 57 hospitalsIL$556Wisconsin: median $860 across 64 hospitalsWI$860Michigan: median $644 across 58 hospitalsMI$644New York: median $443 across 60 hospitalsNY$443Massachusetts: median $928 across 30 hospitalsMA$928Oregon: median $840 across 28 hospitalsOR$840Nevada: median $242 across 10 hospitalsNV$242Wyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $645 across 22 hospitalsIA$645Indiana: median $401 across 60 hospitalsIN$401Ohio: median $839 across 78 hospitalsOH$839Pennsylvania: median $587 across 77 hospitalsPA$587New Jersey: median $209 across 49 hospitalsNJ$209Connecticut: median $520 across 16 hospitalsCT$520Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,036 across 130 hospitalsCA$1,036Utah: median $642 across 17 hospitalsUT$642Colorado: median $902 across 29 hospitalsCO$902Nebraska: median $427 across 11 hospitalsNE$427Missouri: median $504 across 36 hospitalsMO$504Kentucky: median $628 across 24 hospitalsKY$628West Virginia: median $516 across 11 hospitalsWV$516Virginia: median $702 across 41 hospitalsVA$702Maryland: median $204 across 24 hospitalsMD$204Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $310 across 33 hospitalsAZ$310New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $204 across 15 hospitalsAR$204Tennessee: median $264 across 35 hospitalsTN$264North Carolina: median $574 across 48 hospitalsNC$574South Carolina: median $1,008 across 32 hospitalsSC$1,008Oklahoma: median $337 across 24 hospitalsOK$337Louisiana: median $306 across 29 hospitalsLA$306Mississippi: median $196 across 13 hospitalsMS$196Alabama: median $506 across 17 hospitalsAL$506Georgia: median $1,061 across 59 hospitalsGA$1,061Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $521 across 141 hospitalsTX$521Florida: median $826 across 114 hospitalsFL$826
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $596. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA59$1,061+78%$441 – $2,453
California CA130$1,036+74%$328 – $2,007
South Carolina SC32$1,008+69%$448 – $1,154
Massachusetts MA30$928+56%$640 – $1,713
Colorado CO29$902+51%$496 – $1,291
Wisconsin WI64$860+44%$460 – $3,640
Oregon OR28$840+41%$637 – $891
Ohio OH78$839+41%$652 – $1,818
Florida FL114$826+39%$499 – $1,356
Idaho ID14$743+25%$606 – $1,601
Virginia VA41$702+18%$390 – $2,592
Iowa IA22$645+8%$517 – $1,092
Michigan MI58$644+8%$392 – $961
Utah UT17$642+8%$632 – $642
Washington WA36$632+6%$298 – $1,323
Kentucky KY24$628+5%$287 – $5,909
Pennsylvania PA77$587−2%$244 – $1,356
North Carolina NC48$574−4%$316 – $793
Illinois IL57$556−7%$430 – $1,124
Texas TX141$521−13%$335 – $606
Connecticut CT16$520−13%$478 – $687
West Virginia WV11$516−13%$484 – $626
Alabama AL17$506−15%$335 – $672
Missouri MO36$504−15%$272 – $832
New York NY60$443−26%$185 – $918
Nebraska NE11$427−28%$217 – $634
Minnesota MN35$415−30%$399 – $550
Indiana IN60$401−33%$307 – $617
Oklahoma OK24$337−44%$168 – $600
Arizona AZ33$310−48%$195 – $682
Louisiana LA29$306−49%$175 – $514
Tennessee TN35$264−56%$179 – $723
Nevada NV10$242−59%$177 – $778
New Jersey NJ49$209−65%$182 – $609
Arkansas AR15$204−66%$155 – $319
Maryland MD24$204−66%$66 – $1,224
Mississippi MS13$196−67%$161 – $421
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not 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 $596.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,446$586$284 – $1,200
Children’s54$672$299 – $1,381
Critical access131$645$410 – $928
Ownership
For-profit195$701$379 – $1,928
Government185$521$274 – $989
Non-profit1,251$587$292 – $1,127
System affiliation
Part of a system1,472$598$293 – $1,182
Independent166$569$286 – $1,027

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,050
Median cash price$596
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

1,256 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $636 and the average of the middle 60% is $670; most fall between $335 and $1,182.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,256 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
$217$399$636$1,061$2,007

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($217 vs $2,007).

Of the 1,307 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,256 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 39 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,638 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (41%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,710 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,638
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded50
Hospitals that filed this code1,710

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 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 Electroencephalogram (EEG) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Eeg Patient Setup.

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, “Setup and takedown for long-term EEG brain recording (CPT 95700) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95700-setup-and-takedown-for-long-term-eeg-brain-recording