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Limited nerve-muscle electrical test, each arm or leg

CPT 95885the billing code this page is about

A needle electromyography study of a few muscles in one arm or leg and the nearby muscles along the spine, done along with nerve conduction testing; billed once per limb.

Hospitals typically charge $188 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,602 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $198. Most fall between $79 and $360 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,602
States
50
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 1,602 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
$42$93$188$335$515

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($42 vs $515).

How the prices are spread

$29 – $40: 71 hospitals$29$40 – $54: 65 hospitals$54 – $74: 90 hospitals$54$74 – $102: 140 hospitals$102 – $140: 204 hospitals$102$140 – $192: 159 hospitals$192 – $264: 230 hospitals$192$264 – $362: 247 hospitals$362 – $497: 153 hospitals$362$497 – $682: 86 hospitals$497median $188price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,445 of 1,602 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$29$4071
$40$5465
$54$7490
$74$102140
$102$140204
$140$192159
$192$264230
$264$362247
$362$497153
$497$68286

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $188.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $43 across 11 hospitalsME$43Vermont: median $82 across 11 hospitalsVT$82New Hampshire: median $69 across 13 hospitalsNH$69Washington: median $210 across 30 hospitalsWA$210Idaho: median $363 across 12 hospitalsID$363Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $117 across 33 hospitalsMN$117Illinois: median $250 across 69 hospitalsIL$250Wisconsin: median $148 across 71 hospitalsWI$148Michigan: median $105 across 64 hospitalsMI$105New York: median $140 across 47 hospitalsNY$140Massachusetts: median $238 across 37 hospitalsMA$238Oregon: median $109 across 22 hospitalsOR$109Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 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 $194 across 42 hospitalsIA$194Indiana: median $131 across 58 hospitalsIN$131Ohio: median $250 across 82 hospitalsOH$250Pennsylvania: median $206 across 75 hospitalsPA$206New Jersey: median $322 across 22 hospitalsNJ$322Connecticut: median $175 across 11 hospitalsCT$175Rhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $295 across 90 hospitalsCA$295Utah: median $363 across 23 hospitalsUT$363Colorado: median $230 across 39 hospitalsCO$230Nebraska: median $160 across 28 hospitalsNE$160Missouri: median $131 across 55 hospitalsMO$131Kentucky: median $156 across 34 hospitalsKY$156West Virginia: median $189 across 24 hospitalsWV$189Virginia: median $173 across 32 hospitalsVA$173Maryland: median $141 across 20 hospitalsMD$141Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $234 across 25 hospitalsAZ$234New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $92 across 18 hospitalsKS$92Arkansas: median $94 across 15 hospitalsAR$94Tennessee: median $69 across 38 hospitalsTN$69North Carolina: median $158 across 46 hospitalsNC$158South Carolina: median $229 across 29 hospitalsSC$229Oklahoma: median $59 across 23 hospitalsOK$59Louisiana: median $145 across 23 hospitalsLA$145Mississippi: median $70 across 23 hospitalsMS$70Alabama: median $250 across 23 hospitalsAL$250Georgia: median $322 across 68 hospitalsGA$322Hawaii: median $76 across 10 hospitalsHI$76Texas: median $272 across 83 hospitalsTX$272Florida: median $368 across 74 hospitalsFL$368
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $188. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL74$368+96%$107 – $420
Idaho ID12$363+94%$70 – $743
Utah UT23$363+94%$363 – $399
New Jersey NJ22$322+72%$93 – $518
Georgia GA68$322+71%$158 – $542
California CA90$295+57%$131 – $353
Texas TX83$272+45%$148 – $309
Alabama AL23$250+34%$126 – $648
Ohio OH82$250+33%$114 – $373
Illinois IL69$250+33%$88 – $332
Massachusetts MA37$238+27%$61 – $390
Arizona AZ25$234+25%$43 – $234
Colorado CO39$230+22%$145 – $480
South Carolina SC29$229+22%$154 – $384
Washington WA30$210+12%$109 – $240
Pennsylvania PA75$206+10%$57 – $349
Iowa IA42$194+3%$82 – $277
West Virginia WV24$189+1%$66 – $249
Connecticut CT11$175−6%$95 – $211
Virginia VA32$173−8%$125 – $286
Nebraska NE28$160−15%$113 – $315
North Carolina NC46$158−16%$133 – $320
Kentucky KY34$156−17%$49 – $1,831
Wisconsin WI71$148−21%$79 – $267
Louisiana LA23$145−22%$85 – $253
Maryland MD20$141−25%$88 – $210
New York NY47$140−25%$60 – $474
Indiana IN58$131−30%$84 – $399
Missouri MO55$131−30%$41 – $632
Minnesota MN33$117−37%$108 – $149
Oregon OR22$109−42%$74 – $335
Michigan MI64$105−44%$26 – $306
Arkansas AR15$94−50%$39 – $121
Kansas KS18$92−51%$66 – $233
Vermont VT11$82−56%$37 – $155
Hawaii HI10$76−59%$20 – $127
Mississippi MS23$70−63%$22 – $135
Tennessee TN38$69−63%$38 – $293
New Hampshire NH13$69−63%$22 – $197
Oklahoma OK23$59−68%$36 – $354
Maine ME11$43−77%$23 – $111
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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 $188.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,268$205$88 – $371
Children’s55$242$142 – $524
Critical access271$106$55 – $260
Ownership
For-profit155$248$104 – $531
Government220$138$58 – $289
Non-profit1,219$199$80 – $362
System affiliation
Part of a system1,352$204$81 – $366
Independent250$130$58 – $277

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$338
Median cash price$188
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

1,188 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $222 and the average of the middle 60% is $220; most fall between $92 and $371.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,188 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
$50$109$222$353$487

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($50 vs $487).

Of the 1,259 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,188 gave a usable cash price; 24 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 47 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,602 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (40%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,724 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,602
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here40
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 — excluded82
Hospitals that filed this code1,724

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 Ea Extremity W/Paraspinl Area Limited.

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, each arm or leg (CPT 95885) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95885-limited-nerve-muscle-electrical-test-each-arm-or-leg