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Brain recording from an implanted device, up to 30 days

CPT 95836the billing code this page is about

Collection and review of brain electrical activity stored by an implanted brain stimulator, covering a recording period of up to 30 days, with interpretation and report.

Hospitals typically charge $135 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 302 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $138. Most fall between $51 and $225 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
302
States
43
Filings dated
Sep 2025 – 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 302 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
$44$61$135$225$295

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($44 vs $295).

How the prices are spread

$41 – $52: 47 hospitals$41$52 – $65: 27 hospitals$65 – $83: 8 hospitals$65$83 – $105: 26 hospitals$105 – $133: 26 hospitals$105$133 – $169: 39 hospitals$169 – $214: 27 hospitals$169$214 – $272: 52 hospitals$272 – $345: 15 hospitals$272$345 – $437: 5 hospitals$345median $135price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (272 of 302 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$41$5247
$52$6527
$65$838
$83$10526
$105$13326
$133$16939
$169$21427
$214$27252
$272$34515
$345$4375

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$38
Median cash price$135
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.5×

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 $135.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $62 across 10 hospitalsWA$62Idaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $110 across 30 hospitalsMI$110New York: median $44 across 25 hospitalsNY$44Massachusetts: median $128 across 10 hospitalsMA$128Oregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $241 across 13 hospitalsIA$241Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: median $133 across 12 hospitalsOH$133Pennsylvania: median $53 across 14 hospitalsPA$53New Jersey: median $41 across 11 hospitalsNJ$41Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $148 across 26 hospitalsCA$148Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $51 across 10 hospitalsVA$51Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $86 across 12 hospitalsNC$86South Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $213 across 12 hospitalsOK$213Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $225 across 33 hospitalsTX$225Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $135. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Iowa IA13$241+78%$241 – $241
Texas TX33$225+67%$225 – $225
Oklahoma OK12$213+58%$213 – $213
California CA26$148+10%$148 – $148
Ohio OH12$133−2%$74 – $515
Massachusetts MA10$128−5%$112 – $179
Michigan MI30$110−18%$51 – $146
North Carolina NC12$86−37%$86 – $86
Washington WA10$62−54%$54 – $192
Pennsylvania PA14$53−61%$49 – $80
Virginia VA10$51−62%$18 – $61
New York NY25$44−67%$44 – $295
New Jersey NJ11$41−69%$41 – $44
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $135.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care281$127$51 – $225
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access10fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit17fewer than 20 hospitals
Government45$86$44 – $237
Non-profit239$146$53 – $225
System affiliation
Part of a system267$128$51 – $225
Independent35$206$48 – $314

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$265
Median cash price$135
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

223 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $148 and the average of the middle 60% is $158; most fall between $65 and $225.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 223 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
$49$86$148$225$295

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($49 vs $295).

Of the 231 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 223 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 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

302 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 311 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted302
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here8
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 — excluded1
Hospitals that filed this code311

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 Other diagnostic nervous system procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Ecog Implanted Brain Npgt W/Rec I&R <30 Days.

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, “Brain recording from an implanted device, up to 30 days (CPT 95836) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95836-brain-recording-from-an-implanted-device-up-to-30-days