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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic nervous system procedures

Needle muscle and nerve test (EMG) of one arm or leg

CPT 95860the billing code this page is about

Fine needle electrodes are placed in muscles of one limb to record their electrical activity, with interpretation and report.

Hospitals typically charge $284 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,661 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $288. Most fall between $136 and $513 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,661
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 1,661 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
$90$153$284$433$712

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($90 vs $712).

How the prices are spread

$61 – $82: 72 hospitals$61$82 – $112: 102 hospitals$112 – $151: 160 hospitals$112$151 – $205: 200 hospitals$205 – $278: 206 hospitals$205$278 – $376: 274 hospitals$376 – $509: 243 hospitals$376$509 – $690: 152 hospitals$690 – $935: 73 hospitals$690$935 – $1,266: 26 hospitals$935median $284price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,508 of 1,661 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$61$8272
$82$112102
$112$151160
$151$205200
$205$278206
$278$376274
$376$509243
$509$690152
$690$93573
$935$1,26626

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$284
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.1×

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 $284.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $288 across 10 hospitalsVT$288New Hampshire: median $169 across 12 hospitalsNH$169Washington: median $255 across 33 hospitalsWA$255Idaho: median $419 across 14 hospitalsID$419Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $170 across 50 hospitalsMN$170Illinois: median $298 across 68 hospitalsIL$298Wisconsin: median $401 across 67 hospitalsWI$401Michigan: median $234 across 64 hospitalsMI$234New York: median $168 across 56 hospitalsNY$168Massachusetts: median $399 across 31 hospitalsMA$399Oregon: median $130 across 21 hospitalsOR$130Nevada: median $214 across 14 hospitalsNV$214Wyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $320 across 27 hospitalsIA$320Indiana: median $325 across 54 hospitalsIN$325Ohio: median $362 across 66 hospitalsOH$362Pennsylvania: median $223 across 82 hospitalsPA$223New Jersey: median $162 across 34 hospitalsNJ$162Connecticut: median $277 across 13 hospitalsCT$277Rhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $337 across 117 hospitalsCA$337Utah: median $346 across 13 hospitalsUT$346Colorado: median $302 across 34 hospitalsCO$302Nebraska: median $286 across 21 hospitalsNE$286Missouri: median $224 across 57 hospitalsMO$224Kentucky: median $284 across 29 hospitalsKY$284West Virginia: median $240 across 13 hospitalsWV$240Virginia: median $308 across 35 hospitalsVA$308Maryland: median $280 across 23 hospitalsMD$280Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $175 across 35 hospitalsAZ$175New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $197 across 23 hospitalsKS$197Arkansas: median $140 across 13 hospitalsAR$140Tennessee: median $108 across 34 hospitalsTN$108North Carolina: median $306 across 49 hospitalsNC$306South Carolina: median $332 across 31 hospitalsSC$332Oklahoma: median $149 across 27 hospitalsOK$149Louisiana: median $126 across 27 hospitalsLA$126Mississippi: median $144 across 23 hospitalsMS$144Alabama: median $324 across 20 hospitalsAL$324Georgia: median $474 across 67 hospitalsGA$474Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $341 across 115 hospitalsTX$341Florida: median $395 across 83 hospitalsFL$395
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $284. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA67$474+67%$309 – $580
Idaho ID14$419+47%$155 – $611
Wisconsin WI67$401+41%$179 – $609
Massachusetts MA31$399+40%$265 – $579
Florida FL83$395+39%$284 – $873
Ohio OH66$362+28%$145 – $578
Utah UT13$346+22%$168 – $433
Texas TX115$341+20%$191 – $521
California CA117$337+19%$187 – $410
South Carolina SC31$332+17%$300 – $539
Indiana IN54$325+15%$147 – $505
Alabama AL20$324+14%$118 – $2,881
Iowa IA27$320+13%$136 – $454
Virginia VA35$308+8%$68 – $520
North Carolina NC49$306+8%$187 – $426
Colorado CO34$302+6%$163 – $1,405
Illinois IL68$298+5%$134 – $573
Vermont VT10$288+1%$55 – $381
Nebraska NE21$286+1%$208 – $482
Kentucky KY29$2840%$148 – $1,831
Maryland MD23$280−1%$159 – $400
Connecticut CT13$277−2%$191 – $641
Washington WA33$255−10%$184 – $313
West Virginia WV13$240−15%$145 – $488
Michigan MI64$234−18%$61 – $421
Missouri MO57$224−21%$130 – $465
Pennsylvania PA82$223−22%$107 – $474
Nevada NV14$214−25%$86 – $541
Kansas KS23$197−31%$135 – $347
Arizona AZ35$175−38%$125 – $712
Minnesota MN50$170−40%$138 – $332
New Hampshire NH12$169−41%$61 – $259
New York NY56$168−41%$123 – $468
New Jersey NJ34$162−43%$143 – $570
Oklahoma OK27$149−48%$110 – $233
Mississippi MS23$144−49%$78 – $199
Arkansas AR13$140−51%$103 – $338
Oregon OR21$130−54%$90 – $278
Louisiana LA27$126−55%$98 – $306
Tennessee TN34$108−62%$68 – $306
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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 $284.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,372$296$136 – $515
Children’s58$415$261 – $688
Critical access225$202$130 – $409
Ownership
For-profit197$407$161 – $1,133
Government217$227$108 – $426
Non-profit1,241$279$140 – $487
System affiliation
Part of a system1,406$300$142 – $525
Independent255$220$105 – $390

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$480
Median cash price$284
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

1,204 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $309 and the average of the middle 60% is $308; most fall between $145 and $507.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,204 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
$95$161$309$443$669

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($95 vs $669).

Of the 1,269 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,204 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 48 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,661 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (42%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,749 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,661
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here31
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 — excluded56
Hospitals that filed this code1,749

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 Ndl Emg 1 Xtr W/WO Related Paraspinal Areas|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, “Needle muscle and nerve test (EMG) of one arm or leg (CPT 95860) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95860-needle-muscle-and-nerve-test-emg-of-one-arm-or-leg