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

CPT 95863the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $418 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,335 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $431. Most fall between $184 and $778 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,335
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 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 1,335 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
$128$217$418$655$1,107

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($128 vs $1,107).

How the prices are spread

$104 – $140: 94 hospitals$104$140 – $189: 122 hospitals$189 – $255: 112 hospitals$189$255 – $345: 148 hospitals$345 – $466: 205 hospitals$345$466 – $630: 220 hospitals$630 – $851: 140 hospitals$630$851 – $1,149: 99 hospitals$1,149 – $1,553: 24 hospitals$1,149$1,553 – $2,098: 39 hospitals$1,553median $418price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,203 of 1,335 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$104$14094
$140$189122
$189$255112
$255$345148
$345$466205
$466$630220
$630$851140
$851$1,14999
$1,149$1,55324
$1,553$2,09839

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$131
Median cash price$418
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.2×

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 $418.

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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $249 across 11 hospitalsNH$249Washington: median $294 across 22 hospitalsWA$294Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 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 $250 across 13 hospitalsMN$250Illinois: median $515 across 60 hospitalsIL$515Wisconsin: median $423 across 56 hospitalsWI$423Michigan: median $177 across 40 hospitalsMI$177New York: median $195 across 44 hospitalsNY$195Massachusetts: median $500 across 24 hospitalsMA$500Oregon: median $205 across 16 hospitalsOR$205Nevada: median $414 across 13 hospitalsNV$414Wyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $368 across 20 hospitalsIA$368Indiana: median $534 across 49 hospitalsIN$534Ohio: median $539 across 59 hospitalsOH$539Pennsylvania: median $271 across 69 hospitalsPA$271New Jersey: median $202 across 31 hospitalsNJ$202Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $557 across 105 hospitalsCA$557Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $851 across 27 hospitalsCO$851Nebraska: median $463 across 13 hospitalsNE$463Missouri: median $368 across 47 hospitalsMO$368Kentucky: median $465 across 26 hospitalsKY$465West Virginia: median $436 across 10 hospitalsWV$436Virginia: median $284 across 32 hospitalsVA$284Maryland: median $450 across 22 hospitalsMD$450Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $283 across 21 hospitalsAZ$283New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $326 across 19 hospitalsKS$326Arkansas: median $269 across 13 hospitalsAR$269Tennessee: median $124 across 28 hospitalsTN$124North Carolina: median $500 across 45 hospitalsNC$500South Carolina: median $429 across 31 hospitalsSC$429Oklahoma: median $234 across 25 hospitalsOK$234Louisiana: median $124 across 20 hospitalsLA$124Mississippi: median $210 across 22 hospitalsMS$210Alabama: median $353 across 14 hospitalsAL$353Georgia: median $565 across 52 hospitalsGA$565Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $545 across 87 hospitalsTX$545Florida: median $589 across 76 hospitalsFL$589
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $418. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO27$851+104%$474 – $2,359
Florida FL76$589+41%$355 – $1,128
Georgia GA52$565+35%$364 – $933
California CA105$557+33%$309 – $950
Texas TX87$545+31%$261 – $648
Ohio OH59$539+29%$372 – $914
Indiana IN49$534+28%$255 – $679
Illinois IL60$515+23%$176 – $617
North Carolina NC45$500+20%$215 – $645
Massachusetts MA24$500+20%$220 – $832
Kentucky KY26$465+11%$180 – $2,609
Nebraska NE13$463+11%$306 – $900
Maryland MD22$450+8%$229 – $660
West Virginia WV10$436+4%$271 – $592
South Carolina SC31$429+3%$419 – $794
Wisconsin WI56$423+1%$408 – $648
Nevada NV13$414−1%$101 – $657
Iowa IA20$368−12%$226 – $459
Missouri MO47$368−12%$159 – $829
Alabama AL14$353−16%$114 – $7,004
Kansas KS19$326−22%$121 – $677
Washington WA22$294−30%$248 – $518
Virginia VA32$284−32%$139 – $778
Arizona AZ21$283−32%$222 – $752
Pennsylvania PA69$271−35%$118 – $700
Arkansas AR13$269−36%$202 – $607
Minnesota MN13$250−40%$175 – $676
New Hampshire NH11$249−40%$118 – $306
Oklahoma OK25$234−44%$157 – $319
Mississippi MS22$210−50%$132 – $311
Oregon OR16$205−51%$176 – $638
New Jersey NJ31$202−52%$171 – $1,941
New York NY44$195−53%$161 – $580
Michigan MI40$177−58%$118 – $408
Louisiana LA20$124−70%$76 – $259
Tennessee TN28$124−70%$116 – $375
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $418.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,119$429$179 – $798
Children’s46$649$433 – $865
Critical access165$320$184 – $565
Ownership
For-profit156$588$259 – $1,739
Government180$312$166 – $535
Non-profit994$423$183 – $750
System affiliation
Part of a system1,121$433$185 – $798
Independent214$335$166 – $603

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$721
Median cash price$418
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

941 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $456 and the average of the middle 60% is $465; most fall between $218 and $788.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 941 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
$148$263$456$657$1,078

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($148 vs $1,078).

Of the 994 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 941 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 35 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,335 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (34%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,407 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,335
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here28
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded42
Hospitals that filed this code1,407

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 3 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 three arms or legs (CPT 95863) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95863-needle-muscle-and-nerve-test-emg-of-three-arms-or-legs