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Nerve-muscle electrical test of chest wall muscles

CPT 95869the billing code this page is about

A needle electromyography study limited to the muscles alongside the spine in the chest (thoracic) region, recording the electrical activity of those muscles.

Hospitals typically charge $235 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,156 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $239. Most fall between $96 and $418 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,156
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 1,156 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
$56$118$235$371$701

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($56 vs $701).

How the prices are spread

$35 – $49: 49 hospitals$35$49 – $67: 35 hospitals$67 – $93: 79 hospitals$67$93 – $130: 91 hospitals$130 – $180: 143 hospitals$130$180 – $249: 166 hospitals$249 – $345: 193 hospitals$249$345 – $478: 144 hospitals$478 – $663: 71 hospitals$478$663 – $919: 72 hospitals$663median $235price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,043 of 1,156 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$35$4949
$49$6735
$67$9379
$93$13091
$130$180143
$180$249166
$249$345193
$345$478144
$478$66371
$663$91972

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$221
Median cash price$235
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.07×

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 $235.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $246 across 22 hospitalsWA$246Idaho: 9 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 $206 across 21 hospitalsMN$206Illinois: median $280 across 43 hospitalsIL$280Wisconsin: median $238 across 44 hospitalsWI$238Michigan: median $224 across 56 hospitalsMI$224New York: median $369 across 40 hospitalsNY$369Massachusetts: median $259 across 25 hospitalsMA$259Oregon: median $164 across 13 hospitalsOR$164Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 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 $149 across 20 hospitalsIA$149Indiana: median $170 across 43 hospitalsIN$170Ohio: median $349 across 52 hospitalsOH$349Pennsylvania: median $255 across 64 hospitalsPA$255New Jersey: median $345 across 28 hospitalsNJ$345Connecticut: 9 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 $282 across 87 hospitalsCA$282Utah: median $199 across 10 hospitalsUT$199Colorado: median $342 across 21 hospitalsCO$342Nebraska: median $133 across 11 hospitalsNE$133Missouri: median $215 across 41 hospitalsMO$215Kentucky: median $353 across 23 hospitalsKY$353West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $147 across 26 hospitalsVA$147Maryland: median $208 across 14 hospitalsMD$208Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $147 across 16 hospitalsAZ$147New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $146 across 10 hospitalsKS$146Arkansas: median $188 across 11 hospitalsAR$188Tennessee: median $86 across 19 hospitalsTN$86North Carolina: median $229 across 32 hospitalsNC$229South Carolina: median $287 across 21 hospitalsSC$287Oklahoma: median $64 across 22 hospitalsOK$64Louisiana: median $88 across 23 hospitalsLA$88Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $623 across 12 hospitalsAL$623Georgia: median $207 across 45 hospitalsGA$207Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $259 across 78 hospitalsTX$259Florida: median $353 across 60 hospitalsFL$353
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $235. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alabama AL12$623+165%$77 – $2,688
New York NY40$369+57%$120 – $482
Kentucky KY23$353+50%$83 – $827
Florida FL60$353+50%$103 – $566
Ohio OH52$349+48%$144 – $399
New Jersey NJ28$345+47%$279 – $557
Colorado CO21$342+45%$318 – $880
South Carolina SC21$287+22%$127 – $287
California CA87$282+20%$121 – $594
Illinois IL43$280+19%$147 – $380
Massachusetts MA25$259+10%$115 – $413
Texas TX78$259+10%$105 – $315
Pennsylvania PA64$255+8%$97 – $434
Washington WA22$246+5%$65 – $365
Wisconsin WI44$238+1%$200 – $795
North Carolina NC32$229−3%$150 – $310
Michigan MI56$224−5%$23 – $701
Missouri MO41$215−8%$101 – $358
Maryland MD14$208−11%$96 – $400
Georgia GA45$207−12%$185 – $379
Minnesota MN21$206−12%$95 – $238
Utah UT10$199−15%$159 – $199
Arkansas AR11$188−20%$79 – $488
Indiana IN43$170−28%$86 – $337
Oregon OR13$164−30%$35 – $335
Iowa IA20$149−37%$46 – $200
Virginia VA26$147−38%$86 – $233
Arizona AZ16$147−38%$113 – $166
Kansas KS10$146−38%$78 – $693
Nebraska NE11$133−43%$126 – $286
Louisiana LA23$88−63%$57 – $165
Tennessee TN19$86−64%$12 – $154
Oklahoma OK22$64−73%$39 – $343
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not 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 $235.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care969$248$97 – $434
Children’s51$238$142 – $488
Critical access133$178$69 – $267
Ownership
For-profit102$278$108 – $673
Government144$215$100 – $369
Non-profit907$238$94 – $418
System affiliation
Part of a system1,004$238$97 – $427
Independent152$215$81 – $416

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$426
Median cash price$235
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

863 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $245 and the average of the middle 60% is $253; most fall between $102 and $452.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 863 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
$66$121$245$398$701

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($66 vs $701).

Of the 910 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 863 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 30 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,156 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,218 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,156
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here32
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 — excluded30
Hospitals that filed this code1,218

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 Needle Emg Thrc Paraspi Musc Excluding T1/T12|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, “Nerve-muscle electrical test of chest wall muscles (CPT 95869) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95869-nerve-muscle-electrical-test-of-chest-wall-muscles