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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic nervous system procedures

Needle muscle and nerve test (EMG) of two arms or legs

CPT 95861the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $344 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,787 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $371. Most fall between $160 and $651 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,787
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 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 1,787 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
$116$186$344$600$892

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($116 vs $892).

How the prices are spread

$88 – $117: 94 hospitals$88$117 – $156: 156 hospitals$156 – $208: 166 hospitals$156$208 – $278: 203 hospitals$278 – $370: 244 hospitals$278$370 – $494: 223 hospitals$494 – $658: 283 hospitals$494$658 – $878: 151 hospitals$878 – $1,171: 58 hospitals$878$1,171 – $1,561: 35 hospitals$1,171median $344price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,613 of 1,787 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$88$11794
$117$156156
$156$208166
$208$278203
$278$370244
$370$494223
$494$658283
$658$878151
$878$1,17158
$1,171$1,56135

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$344
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.5×

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 $344.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $208 across 12 hospitalsNH$208Washington: median $301 across 41 hospitalsWA$301Idaho: median $611 across 14 hospitalsID$611Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $214 across 52 hospitalsMN$214Illinois: median $368 across 70 hospitalsIL$368Wisconsin: median $510 across 75 hospitalsWI$510Michigan: median $390 across 63 hospitalsMI$390New York: median $188 across 54 hospitalsNY$188Massachusetts: median $463 across 25 hospitalsMA$463Oregon: median $258 across 25 hospitalsOR$258Nevada: median $343 across 14 hospitalsNV$343Wyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $321 across 30 hospitalsIA$321Indiana: median $440 across 58 hospitalsIN$440Ohio: median $513 across 72 hospitalsOH$513Pennsylvania: median $248 across 92 hospitalsPA$248New Jersey: median $169 across 34 hospitalsNJ$169Connecticut: median $277 across 12 hospitalsCT$277Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $342 across 138 hospitalsCA$342Utah: median $527 across 13 hospitalsUT$527Colorado: median $356 across 42 hospitalsCO$356Nebraska: median $421 across 26 hospitalsNE$421Missouri: median $292 across 59 hospitalsMO$292Kentucky: median $400 across 29 hospitalsKY$400West Virginia: median $381 across 13 hospitalsWV$381Virginia: median $247 across 36 hospitalsVA$247Maryland: median $354 across 28 hospitalsMD$354Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $251 across 35 hospitalsAZ$251New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $231 across 22 hospitalsKS$231Arkansas: median $214 across 14 hospitalsAR$214Tennessee: median $139 across 34 hospitalsTN$139North Carolina: median $422 across 54 hospitalsNC$422South Carolina: median $436 across 34 hospitalsSC$436Oklahoma: median $233 across 27 hospitalsOK$233Louisiana: median $158 across 27 hospitalsLA$158Mississippi: median $210 across 28 hospitalsMS$210Alabama: median $312 across 22 hospitalsAL$312Georgia: median $608 across 73 hospitalsGA$608Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $508 across 122 hospitalsTX$508Florida: median $506 across 95 hospitalsFL$506
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $344. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID14$611+78%$214 – $870
Georgia GA73$608+77%$181 – $640
Utah UT13$527+53%$284 – $659
Ohio OH72$513+49%$169 – $688
Wisconsin WI75$510+48%$291 – $655
Texas TX122$508+48%$245 – $651
Florida FL95$506+47%$284 – $979
Massachusetts MA25$463+35%$328 – $710
Indiana IN58$440+28%$225 – $736
South Carolina SC34$436+27%$352 – $799
North Carolina NC54$422+23%$209 – $641
Nebraska NE26$421+22%$252 – $691
Kentucky KY29$400+16%$145 – $1,872
Michigan MI63$390+13%$75 – $547
West Virginia WV13$381+11%$159 – $504
Illinois IL70$368+7%$150 – $735
Colorado CO42$356+3%$248 – $722
Maryland MD28$354+3%$181 – $515
Nevada NV14$3430%$86 – $573
California CA138$342−1%$170 – $534
Iowa IA30$321−7%$137 – $430
Alabama AL22$312−9%$102 – $3,794
Washington WA41$301−13%$187 – $373
Missouri MO59$292−15%$136 – $590
Connecticut CT12$277−19%$191 – $695
Oregon OR25$258−25%$137 – $344
Arizona AZ35$251−27%$176 – $803
Pennsylvania PA92$248−28%$150 – $615
Virginia VA36$247−28%$106 – $434
Oklahoma OK27$233−32%$175 – $337
Kansas KS22$231−33%$171 – $478
Minnesota MN52$214−38%$184 – $398
Arkansas AR14$214−38%$156 – $488
Mississippi MS28$210−39%$109 – $499
New Hampshire NH12$208−40%$97 – $374
New York NY54$188−45%$153 – $515
New Jersey NJ34$169−51%$143 – $513
Louisiana LA27$158−54%$105 – $321
Tennessee TN34$139−60%$88 – $533
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not 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 $344.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,484$352$157 – $651
Children’s60$521$313 – $720
Critical access235$291$161 – $575
Ownership
For-profit221$518$228 – $1,220
Government227$284$137 – $614
Non-profit1,331$342$158 – $627
System affiliation
Part of a system1,524$365$166 – $655
Independent263$268$143 – $513

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$605
Median cash price$344
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

1,336 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $356 and the average of the middle 60% is $387; most fall between $175 and $651.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,336 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
$126$209$356$608$850

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($126 vs $850).

Of the 1,407 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,336 gave a usable cash price; 21 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 50 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,787 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (45%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,884 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,787
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here37
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 — excluded59
Hospitals that filed this code1,884

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 2 Xtr W/WO Related Paraspinal Areas|TECHNICAL 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 two arms or legs (CPT 95861) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95861-needle-muscle-and-nerve-test-emg-of-two-arms-or-legs