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Limited nerve-muscle electrical test of one area

CPT 95870the billing code this page is about

A needle electromyography study of a limited number of muscles in one body area other than the muscles alongside the thoracic spine, recording their electrical activity.

Hospitals typically charge $184 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,389 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $204. Most fall between $88 and $377 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,389
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 1,389 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
$52$104$184$330$540

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($52 vs $540).

How the prices are spread

$36 – $49: 57 hospitals$36$49 – $67: 63 hospitals$67 – $91: 109 hospitals$67$91 – $124: 95 hospitals$124 – $169: 238 hospitals$124$169 – $230: 176 hospitals$230 – $313: 211 hospitals$230$313 – $426: 168 hospitals$426 – $580: 80 hospitals$426$580 – $789: 54 hospitals$580median $184price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,251 of 1,389 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$36$4957
$49$6763
$67$91109
$91$12495
$124$169238
$169$230176
$230$313211
$313$426168
$426$58080
$580$78954

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$184
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.35×

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 $184.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $150 across 11 hospitalsVT$150New Hampshire: median $102 across 13 hospitalsNH$102Washington: median $187 across 22 hospitalsWA$187Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 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 $198 across 34 hospitalsMN$198Illinois: median $201 across 58 hospitalsIL$201Wisconsin: median $182 across 60 hospitalsWI$182Michigan: median $157 across 55 hospitalsMI$157New York: median $153 across 47 hospitalsNY$153Massachusetts: median $255 across 21 hospitalsMA$255Oregon: median $105 across 14 hospitalsOR$105Nevada: 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $131 across 25 hospitalsIA$131Indiana: median $152 across 44 hospitalsIN$152Ohio: median $268 across 66 hospitalsOH$268Pennsylvania: median $192 across 78 hospitalsPA$192New Jersey: median $152 across 23 hospitalsNJ$152Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $260 across 107 hospitalsCA$260Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $364 across 35 hospitalsCO$364Nebraska: median $173 across 22 hospitalsNE$173Missouri: median $189 across 40 hospitalsMO$189Kentucky: median $286 across 25 hospitalsKY$286West Virginia: median $161 across 11 hospitalsWV$161Virginia: median $176 across 33 hospitalsVA$176Maryland: median $235 across 22 hospitalsMD$235Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $140 across 28 hospitalsAZ$140New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $104 across 10 hospitalsKS$104Arkansas: median $79 across 11 hospitalsAR$79Tennessee: median $72 across 31 hospitalsTN$72North Carolina: median $247 across 47 hospitalsNC$247South Carolina: median $258 across 30 hospitalsSC$258Oklahoma: median $52 across 22 hospitalsOK$52Louisiana: median $69 across 23 hospitalsLA$69Mississippi: median $88 across 18 hospitalsMS$88Alabama: median $101 across 14 hospitalsAL$101Georgia: median $183 across 63 hospitalsGA$183Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $246 across 81 hospitalsTX$246Florida: median $330 across 71 hospitalsFL$330
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $184. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO35$364+98%$136 – $552
Florida FL71$330+79%$86 – $722
Kentucky KY25$286+56%$74 – $373
Ohio OH66$268+46%$126 – $535
California CA107$260+41%$129 – $398
South Carolina SC30$258+40%$150 – $275
Massachusetts MA21$255+38%$117 – $358
North Carolina NC47$247+34%$101 – $414
Texas TX81$246+33%$140 – $299
Maryland MD22$235+28%$139 – $400
Illinois IL58$201+9%$107 – $340
Minnesota MN34$198+8%$120 – $296
Pennsylvania PA78$192+4%$105 – $323
Missouri MO40$189+3%$112 – $677
Washington WA22$187+1%$64 – $389
Georgia GA63$1830%$93 – $374
Wisconsin WI60$182−1%$138 – $313
Virginia VA33$176−4%$72 – $185
Nebraska NE22$173−6%$126 – $320
West Virginia WV11$161−12%$124 – $209
Michigan MI55$157−15%$23 – $235
New York NY47$153−17%$93 – $445
New Jersey NJ23$152−17%$143 – $172
Indiana IN44$152−18%$50 – $239
Vermont VT11$150−18%$68 – $224
Arizona AZ28$140−24%$62 – $313
Iowa IA25$131−29%$46 – $197
Oregon OR14$105−43%$35 – $381
Kansas KS10$104−43%$44 – $199
New Hampshire NH13$102−44%$23 – $133
Alabama AL14$101−45%$48 – $287
Mississippi MS18$88−52%$55 – $131
Arkansas AR11$79−57%$73 – $469
Tennessee TN31$72−61%$44 – $123
Louisiana LA23$69−63%$47 – $137
Oklahoma OK22$52−72%$39 – $343
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $184.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,167$183$86 – $373
Children’s51$395$169 – $642
Critical access163$157$80 – $271
Ownership
For-profit147$260$103 – $517
Government178$153$66 – $357
Non-profit1,056$185$88 – $365
System affiliation
Part of a system1,200$186$87 – $377
Independent189$163$88 – $336

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$331
Median cash price$184
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

1,052 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $199 and the average of the middle 60% is $215; most fall between $96 and $377.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,052 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
$57$122$199$330$487

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($57 vs $487).

Of the 1,105 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,052 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 34 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,389 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 1,461 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,389
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
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 — excluded42
Hospitals that filed this code1,461

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 Lmtd Std Musc 1 Xtr/Non-Limb Uni/Bi|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, “Limited nerve-muscle electrical test of one area (CPT 95870) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95870-limited-nerve-muscle-electrical-test-of-one-area