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Single-fiber nerve-muscle electrical test, each muscle

CPT 95872the billing code this page is about

A needle electromyography study using a single-fiber electrode to measure jitter and blocking in muscle fibers; billed once for each muscle studied.

Hospitals typically charge $333 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 708 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $340. Most fall between $165 and $586 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
708
States
48
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 708 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
$98$180$333$512$802

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($98 vs $802).

How the prices are spread

$88 – $117: 50 hospitals$88$117 – $155: 49 hospitals$155 – $207: 85 hospitals$155$207 – $276: 81 hospitals$276 – $367: 89 hospitals$276$367 – $489: 104 hospitals$489 – $652: 110 hospitals$489$652 – $868: 41 hospitals$868 – $1,157: 23 hospitals$868$1,157 – $1,541: 6 hospitals$1,157median $333price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (638 of 708 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$88$11750
$117$15549
$155$20785
$207$27681
$276$36789
$367$489104
$489$652110
$652$86841
$868$1,15723
$1,157$1,5416

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$221
Median cash price$333
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.51×

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 $333.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $333 across 16 hospitalsWA$333Idaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: median $201 across 22 hospitalsMN$201Illinois: median $281 across 29 hospitalsIL$281Wisconsin: median $503 across 24 hospitalsWI$503Michigan: median $180 across 27 hospitalsMI$180New York: median $221 across 33 hospitalsNY$221Massachusetts: median $447 across 19 hospitalsMA$447Oregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $98 across 15 hospitalsIA$98Indiana: median $323 across 24 hospitalsIN$323Ohio: median $646 across 30 hospitalsOH$646Pennsylvania: median $255 across 44 hospitalsPA$255New Jersey: median $184 across 17 hospitalsNJ$184Connecticut: 6 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 $503 across 61 hospitalsCA$503Utah: median $534 across 12 hospitalsUT$534Colorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $347 across 19 hospitalsMO$347Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $232 across 14 hospitalsWV$232Virginia: median $284 across 19 hospitalsVA$284Maryland: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $587 across 12 hospitalsAZ$587New Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $100 across 12 hospitalsTN$100North Carolina: median $303 across 22 hospitalsNC$303South Carolina: median $75 across 11 hospitalsSC$75Oklahoma: median $88 across 17 hospitalsOK$88Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $138 across 10 hospitalsMS$138Alabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $339 across 23 hospitalsGA$339Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $386 across 39 hospitalsTX$386Florida: median $431 across 46 hospitalsFL$431
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $333. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH30$646+94%$311 – $750
Arizona AZ12$587+76%$311 – $587
Utah UT12$534+60%$534 – $534
California CA61$503+51%$413 – $1,579
Wisconsin WI24$503+51%$361 – $2,173
Massachusetts MA19$447+34%$328 – $650
Florida FL46$431+30%$288 – $641
Texas TX39$386+16%$342 – $497
Missouri MO19$347+4%$180 – $604
Georgia GA23$339+2%$273 – $432
Washington WA16$3330%$254 – $576
Indiana IN24$323−3%$135 – $503
North Carolina NC22$303−9%$212 – $484
Virginia VA19$284−15%$215 – $942
Illinois IL29$281−15%$98 – $743
Pennsylvania PA44$255−23%$110 – $474
West Virginia WV14$232−30%$170 – $280
New York NY33$221−34%$185 – $482
Minnesota MN22$201−40%$153 – $381
New Jersey NJ17$184−45%$173 – $520
Michigan MI27$180−46%$180 – $375
Mississippi MS10$138−58%$122 – $141
Tennessee TN12$100−70%$58 – $112
Iowa IA15$98−70%$98 – $131
Oklahoma OK17$88−74%$88 – $343
South Carolina SC11$75−77%$23 – $253
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $333.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care598$333$166 – $587
Children’s38$339$164 – $674
Critical access72$303$160 – $437
Ownership
For-profit63$413$212 – $641
Government90$275$176 – $484
Non-profit555$333$160 – $587
System affiliation
Part of a system625$339$164 – $587
Independent83$311$176 – $531

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$567
Median cash price$333
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

495 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $384 and the average of the middle 60% is $387; most fall between $166 and $616.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 495 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
$98$215$384$534$929

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($98 vs $929).

Of the 525 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 495 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

708 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 742 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted708
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here18
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 — excluded16
Hospitals that filed this code742

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 W/1 Fiber Electrode Quan Meas Jitter.

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, “Single-fiber nerve-muscle electrical test, each muscle (CPT 95872) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95872-single-fiber-nerve-muscle-electrical-test-each-muscle