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Exercise test of limb with muscle chemical sampling

CPT 95875the billing code this page is about

A test in which a limb is exercised with restricted blood flow and repeated samples are taken to measure muscle chemical byproducts such as lactate.

Hospitals typically charge $185 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 276 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $228. Most fall between $112 and $396 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
276
States
41
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 276 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
$70$131$185$371$543

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($70 vs $543).

How the prices are spread

$48 – $63: 11 hospitals$48$63 – $83: 10 hospitals$83 – $108: 12 hospitals$83$108 – $142: 38 hospitals$142 – $185: 64 hospitals$142$185 – $243: 16 hospitals$243 – $318: 18 hospitals$243$318 – $416: 49 hospitals$416 – $545: 24 hospitals$416$545 – $713: 12 hospitals$545median $185price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (254 of 276 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$48$6311
$63$8310
$83$10812
$108$14238
$142$18564
$185$24316
$243$31818
$318$41649
$416$54524
$545$71312

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$131
Median cash price$185
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.41×

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 $185.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $109 across 12 hospitalsIL$109Wisconsin: median $713 across 11 hospitalsWI$713Michigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $185 across 21 hospitalsNY$185Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $133 across 13 hospitalsIA$133Indiana: median $160 across 13 hospitalsIN$160Ohio: median $286 across 10 hospitalsOH$286Pennsylvania: median $39 across 14 hospitalsPA$39New Jersey: median $173 across 10 hospitalsNJ$173Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $543 across 35 hospitalsCA$543Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $90 across 12 hospitalsTN$90North Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $112 across 12 hospitalsOK$112Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $356 across 20 hospitalsTX$356Florida: median $169 across 22 hospitalsFL$169
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $185. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI11$713+285%$713 – $842
California CA35$543+193%$396 – $543
Texas TX20$356+92%$206 – $356
Ohio OH10$286+54%$176 – $334
New York NY21$1850%$153 – $185
New Jersey NJ10$173−6%$171 – $173
Florida FL22$169−9%$169 – $371
Indiana IN13$160−13%$140 – $215
Iowa IA13$133−28%$133 – $642
Oklahoma OK12$112−40%$112 – $112
Illinois IL12$109−41%$54 – $182
Tennessee TN12$90−52%$48 – $101
Pennsylvania PA14$39−79%$35 – $148
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not 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 $185.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care242$183$112 – $396
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access25$215$110 – $371
Ownership
For-profit20$159$54 – $304
Government29$185$108 – $386
Non-profit227$185$113 – $396
System affiliation
Part of a system241$185$112 – $396
Independent35$166$109 – $295

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$466
Median cash price$185
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

174 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $304 and the average of the middle 60% is $302; most fall between $112 and $543.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 174 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
$101$133$304$413$642

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($101 vs $642).

Of the 191 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 174 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

276 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 294 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted276
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
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 — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code294

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 5, 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 Ischemic Limb Xers Tst Spec Acquisj Metab|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, “Exercise test of limb with muscle chemical sampling (CPT 95875) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95875-exercise-test-of-limb-with-muscle-chemical-sampling