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Needle muscle and nerve test (EMG) of all four limbs

CPT 95864the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $477 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,403 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $511. Most fall between $197 and $942 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,403
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 1,403 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
$143$243$477$849$1,322

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($143 vs $1,322).

How the prices are spread

$117 – $157: 105 hospitals$117$157 – $211: 137 hospitals$211 – $283: 103 hospitals$211$283 – $380: 130 hospitals$380 – $511: 197 hospitals$380$511 – $686: 211 hospitals$686 – $921: 158 hospitals$686$921 – $1,237: 135 hospitals$1,237 – $1,661: 56 hospitals$1,237$1,661 – $2,231: 34 hospitals$1,661median $477price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,266 of 1,403 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$117$157105
$157$211137
$211$283103
$283$380130
$380$511197
$511$686211
$686$921158
$921$1,237135
$1,237$1,66156
$1,661$2,23134

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$131
Median cash price$477
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.6×

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 $477.

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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $268 across 10 hospitalsNH$268Washington: median $350 across 21 hospitalsWA$350Idaho: 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $482 across 19 hospitalsMN$482Illinois: median $409 across 67 hospitalsIL$409Wisconsin: median $673 across 53 hospitalsWI$673Michigan: median $240 across 47 hospitalsMI$240New York: median $221 across 44 hospitalsNY$221Massachusetts: median $526 across 19 hospitalsMA$526Oregon: median $335 across 22 hospitalsOR$335Nevada: median $440 across 13 hospitalsNV$440Wyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $427 across 20 hospitalsIA$427Indiana: median $648 across 48 hospitalsIN$648Ohio: median $702 across 65 hospitalsOH$702Pennsylvania: median $271 across 75 hospitalsPA$271New Jersey: median $202 across 31 hospitalsNJ$202Connecticut: 3 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 $584 across 108 hospitalsCA$584Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $944 across 37 hospitalsCO$944Nebraska: median $510 across 16 hospitalsNE$510Missouri: median $505 across 43 hospitalsMO$505Kentucky: median $620 across 25 hospitalsKY$620West Virginia: median $434 across 11 hospitalsWV$434Virginia: median $295 across 33 hospitalsVA$295Maryland: median $531 across 19 hospitalsMD$531Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $384 across 32 hospitalsAZ$384New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $287 across 16 hospitalsKS$287Arkansas: median $425 across 13 hospitalsAR$425Tennessee: median $214 across 32 hospitalsTN$214North Carolina: median $475 across 33 hospitalsNC$475South Carolina: median $527 across 22 hospitalsSC$527Oklahoma: median $311 across 24 hospitalsOK$311Louisiana: median $124 across 20 hospitalsLA$124Mississippi: median $254 across 25 hospitalsMS$254Alabama: median $342 across 12 hospitalsAL$342Georgia: median $724 across 61 hospitalsGA$724Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $686 across 118 hospitalsTX$686Florida: median $673 across 74 hospitalsFL$673
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $477. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO37$944+98%$328 – $2,399
Georgia GA61$724+52%$286 – $1,229
Ohio OH65$702+47%$451 – $1,110
Texas TX118$686+44%$309 – $1,206
Florida FL74$673+41%$387 – $2,009
Wisconsin WI53$673+41%$443 – $918
Indiana IN48$648+36%$472 – $880
Kentucky KY25$620+30%$235 – $1,551
California CA108$584+22%$374 – $873
Maryland MD19$531+11%$271 – $882
South Carolina SC22$527+10%$387 – $939
Massachusetts MA19$526+10%$212 – $911
Nebraska NE16$510+7%$456 – $682
Missouri MO43$505+6%$167 – $929
Minnesota MN19$482+1%$258 – $1,027
North Carolina NC33$4750%$197 – $873
Nevada NV13$440−8%$107 – $700
West Virginia WV11$434−9%$293 – $592
Iowa IA20$427−10%$241 – $526
Arkansas AR13$425−11%$189 – $634
Illinois IL67$409−14%$166 – $1,180
Arizona AZ32$384−19%$261 – $2,231
Washington WA21$350−27%$202 – $518
Alabama AL12$342−28%$114 – $699
Oregon OR22$335−30%$187 – $600
Oklahoma OK24$311−35%$215 – $405
Virginia VA33$295−38%$193 – $1,020
Kansas KS16$287−40%$121 – $903
Pennsylvania PA75$271−43%$131 – $768
New Hampshire NH10$268−44%$125 – $749
Mississippi MS25$254−47%$108 – $333
Michigan MI47$240−50%$125 – $530
New York NY44$221−54%$161 – $697
Tennessee TN32$214−55%$133 – $391
New Jersey NJ31$202−58%$171 – $2,587
Louisiana LA20$124−74%$87 – $308
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not 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
Connecticut CT3not 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 $477.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,179$482$193 – $963
Children’s49$632$170 – $966
Critical access170$443$208 – $789
Ownership
For-profit173$673$248 – $1,903
Government174$350$162 – $769
Non-profit1,051$479$200 – $914
System affiliation
Part of a system1,197$502$203 – $963
Independent206$400$177 – $716

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$888
Median cash price$477
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

1,010 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $513 and the average of the middle 60% is $545; most fall between $243 and $942.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,010 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
$158$284$513$852$1,242

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($158 vs $1,242).

Of the 1,068 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,010 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 41 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,403 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (35%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,476 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,403
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) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded44
Hospitals that filed this code1,476

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 Hp 95864 Ndl Emg 4 Xtr W/WO Related Paraspinal Areas.

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 all four limbs (CPT 95864) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95864-needle-muscle-and-nerve-test-emg-of-all-four-limbs