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Needle muscle recording guidance for muscle injection

CPT 95874the billing code this page is about

Use of a recording needle in the muscle to locate the target while a nerve-blocking drug such as botulinum toxin is injected; billed in addition to the injection itself.

Hospitals typically charge $130 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,068 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $136. Most fall between $57 and $253 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,068
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 1,068 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
$34$65$130$214$381

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($34 vs $381).

How the prices are spread

$23 – $32: 47 hospitals$23$32 – $44: 54 hospitals$44 – $61: 74 hospitals$44$61 – $84: 128 hospitals$84 – $116: 132 hospitals$84$116 – $160: 135 hospitals$160 – $221: 188 hospitals$160$221 – $305: 100 hospitals$305 – $420: 71 hospitals$305$420 – $579: 37 hospitals$420median $130price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (966 of 1,068 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$23$3247
$32$4454
$44$6174
$61$84128
$84$116132
$116$160135
$160$221188
$221$305100
$305$42071
$420$57937

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $130.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 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 $165 across 29 hospitalsWA$165Idaho: median $201 across 11 hospitalsID$201Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $74 across 44 hospitalsMN$74Illinois: median $106 across 35 hospitalsIL$106Wisconsin: median $154 across 54 hospitalsWI$154Michigan: median $91 across 54 hospitalsMI$91New York: median $89 across 33 hospitalsNY$89Massachusetts: median $160 across 28 hospitalsMA$160Oregon: median $72 across 11 hospitalsOR$72Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 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 $53 across 22 hospitalsIA$53Indiana: median $216 across 37 hospitalsIN$216Ohio: median $246 across 70 hospitalsOH$246Pennsylvania: median $55 across 31 hospitalsPA$55New Jersey: median $853 across 13 hospitalsNJ$853Connecticut: median $91 across 12 hospitalsCT$91Rhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $207 across 66 hospitalsCA$207Utah: median $203 across 21 hospitalsUT$203Colorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $124 across 19 hospitalsNE$124Missouri: median $76 across 34 hospitalsMO$76Kentucky: median $200 across 22 hospitalsKY$200West Virginia: median $89 across 10 hospitalsWV$89Virginia: median $91 across 29 hospitalsVA$91Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $296 across 15 hospitalsAZ$296New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $50 across 11 hospitalsKS$50Arkansas: median $123 across 12 hospitalsAR$123Tennessee: median $91 across 19 hospitalsTN$91North Carolina: median $112 across 33 hospitalsNC$112South Carolina: median $274 across 22 hospitalsSC$274Oklahoma: median $38 across 17 hospitalsOK$38Louisiana: median $72 across 21 hospitalsLA$72Mississippi: median $59 across 18 hospitalsMS$59Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $117 across 20 hospitalsGA$117Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $174 across 61 hospitalsTX$174Florida: median $167 across 43 hospitalsFL$167
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $130. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ13$853+557%$111 – $4,334
Arizona AZ15$296+128%$58 – $296
South Carolina SC22$274+111%$65 – $415
Ohio OH70$246+90%$106 – $508
Indiana IN37$216+66%$84 – $325
California CA66$207+59%$135 – $381
Utah UT21$203+56%$203 – $253
Idaho ID11$201+55%$187 – $276
Kentucky KY22$200+54%$95 – $780
Texas TX61$174+34%$107 – $181
Florida FL43$167+29%$162 – $235
Washington WA29$165+27%$54 – $194
Massachusetts MA28$160+23%$92 – $277
Wisconsin WI54$154+18%$62 – $246
Nebraska NE19$124−4%$29 – $314
Arkansas AR12$123−5%$62 – $469
Georgia GA20$117−10%$117 – $304
North Carolina NC33$112−14%$79 – $117
Illinois IL35$106−19%$45 – $274
Tennessee TN19$91−30%$15 – $91
Virginia VA29$91−30%$37 – $181
Michigan MI54$91−30%$27 – $163
Connecticut CT12$91−30%$69 – $123
New York NY33$89−31%$53 – $222
West Virginia WV10$89−32%$56 – $98
Missouri MO34$76−42%$46 – $144
Minnesota MN44$74−43%$62 – $165
Oregon OR11$72−45%$34 – $83
Louisiana LA21$72−45%$51 – $131
Mississippi MS18$59−54%$52 – $122
Pennsylvania PA31$55−58%$13 – $108
Iowa IA22$53−59%$40 – $134
Kansas KS11$50−62%$19 – $181
Oklahoma OK17$38−71%$38 – $78
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $130.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care847$130$57 – $253
Children’s49$267$107 – $427
Critical access167$105$50 – $201
Ownership
For-profit64$174$57 – $296
Government144$127$49 – $225
Non-profit855$124$57 – $253
System affiliation
Part of a system911$130$61 – $253
Independent157$119$44 – $258

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$221
Median cash price$130
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

785 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $144 and the average of the middle 60% is $149; most fall between $65 and $278.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 785 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
$38$77$144$244$415

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($38 vs $415).

Of the 831 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 785 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 28 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,068 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (27%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,159 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,068
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) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded60
Hospitals that filed this code1,159

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Guid W/Chemodenervation|TECHNICAL 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 recording guidance for muscle injection (CPT 95874) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95874-needle-muscle-recording-guidance-for-muscle-injection