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Procedure price report · Electroencephalogram (EEG)

Doctor's reading of EEG with video, 2 to 12 hours

CPT 95718the billing code this page is about

The physician's review and written interpretation of a brain wave recording made with video; one unit covers a single recording session of 2 to 12 hours.

Hospitals typically charge $307 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 378 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $356. Most fall between $158 and $910 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
378
States
45
Filings dated
Apr 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 378 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
$133$190$307$617$1,741

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($133 vs $1,741).

How the prices are spread

$103 – $138: 23 hospitals$103$138 – $185: 51 hospitals$185 – $249: 43 hospitals$185$249 – $333: 70 hospitals$333 – $447: 42 hospitals$333$447 – $599: 34 hospitals$599 – $802: 21 hospitals$599$802 – $1,075: 5 hospitals$1,075 – $1,441: 7 hospitals$1,075$1,441 – $1,932: 51 hospitals$1,441median $307price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (347 of 378 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$103$13823
$138$18551
$185$24943
$249$33370
$333$44742
$447$59934
$599$80221
$802$1,0755
$1,075$1,4417
$1,441$1,93251

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $307.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $339 across 23 hospitalsMN$339Illinois: median $230 across 14 hospitalsIL$230Wisconsin: median $1,570 across 26 hospitalsWI$1,570Michigan: median $159 across 30 hospitalsMI$159New York: median $267 across 14 hospitalsNY$267Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $381 across 21 hospitalsOR$381Nevada: 1 hospital 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 $303 across 18 hospitalsIA$303Indiana: median $149 across 10 hospitalsIN$149Ohio: median $334 across 16 hospitalsOH$334Pennsylvania: median $278 across 23 hospitalsPA$278New Jersey: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 6 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 $1,932 across 28 hospitalsCA$1,932Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $2,592 across 14 hospitalsVA$2,592Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $307 across 10 hospitalsOK$307Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $303 across 19 hospitalsGA$303Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $307. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA14$2,592+745%$88 – $2,592
California CA28$1,932+530%$322 – $1,932
Wisconsin WI26$1,570+412%$487 – $1,741
Oregon OR21$381+24%$314 – $488
Minnesota MN23$339+10%$276 – $1,618
Ohio OH16$334+9%$255 – $715
Oklahoma OK10$3070%$307 – $307
Iowa IA18$303−1%$303 – $396
Georgia GA19$303−1%$109 – $660
Pennsylvania PA23$278−9%$78 – $910
New York NY14$267−13%$183 – $444
Illinois IL14$230−25%$149 – $310
Michigan MI30$159−48%$152 – $261
Indiana IN10$149−51%$148 – $298
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $307.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care296$307$158 – $715
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access67$314$152 – $1,570
Ownership
For-profit17fewer than 20 hospitals
Government47$303$149 – $443
Non-profit312$314$159 – $1,414
System affiliation
Part of a system320$314$158 – $1,379
Independent58$274$159 – $443

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$440
Median cash price$307
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

259 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $307 and the average of the middle 60% is $358; most fall between $183 and $928.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 259 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
$149$207$307$602$1,932

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($149 vs $1,932).

Of the 285 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 259 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

378 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 413 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted378
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here13
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded21
Hospitals that filed this code413

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 Electroencephalogram (EEG) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Eeg Phys/Qhp 2-12 Hr With Veeg.

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, “Doctor's reading of EEG with video, 2 to 12 hours (CPT 95718) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95718-doctor-s-reading-of-eeg-with-video-2-to-12-hours