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Nerve-muscle electrical test of head, face or trunk muscles

CPT 95887the billing code this page is about

A needle electromyography study of muscles outside the arms and legs, such as face, head or trunk muscles, performed together with nerve conduction testing.

Hospitals typically charge $161 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,252 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $182. Most fall between $80 and $336 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,252
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 1,252 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
$54$88$161$303$466

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($54 vs $466).

How the prices are spread

$44 – $58: 81 hospitals$44$58 – $76: 91 hospitals$76 – $99: 123 hospitals$76$99 – $130: 120 hospitals$130 – $170: 171 hospitals$130$170 – $222: 147 hospitals$222 – $291: 120 hospitals$222$291 – $382: 149 hospitals$382 – $500: 81 hospitals$382$500 – $655: 45 hospitals$500median $161price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,128 of 1,252 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$44$5881
$58$7691
$76$99123
$99$130120
$130$170171
$170$222147
$222$291120
$291$382149
$382$50081
$500$65545

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $161.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $160 across 25 hospitalsWA$160Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 6 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 $138 across 28 hospitalsMN$138Illinois: median $125 across 57 hospitalsIL$125Wisconsin: median $192 across 61 hospitalsWI$192Michigan: median $130 across 54 hospitalsMI$130New York: median $162 across 35 hospitalsNY$162Massachusetts: median $151 across 36 hospitalsMA$151Oregon: median $148 across 18 hospitalsOR$148Nevada: 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $131 across 26 hospitalsIA$131Indiana: median $148 across 45 hospitalsIN$148Ohio: median $128 across 57 hospitalsOH$128Pennsylvania: median $164 across 57 hospitalsPA$164New Jersey: median $224 across 19 hospitalsNJ$224Connecticut: median $125 across 11 hospitalsCT$125Rhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $336 across 77 hospitalsCA$336Utah: median $265 across 13 hospitalsUT$265Colorado: median $265 across 29 hospitalsCO$265Nebraska: median $100 across 18 hospitalsNE$100Missouri: median $122 across 40 hospitalsMO$122Kentucky: median $290 across 22 hospitalsKY$290West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $173 across 30 hospitalsVA$173Maryland: median $154 across 24 hospitalsMD$154Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $320 across 22 hospitalsAZ$320New Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $172 across 12 hospitalsKS$172Arkansas: median $100 across 12 hospitalsAR$100Tennessee: median $55 across 30 hospitalsTN$55North Carolina: median $105 across 42 hospitalsNC$105South Carolina: median $355 across 23 hospitalsSC$355Oklahoma: median $72 across 16 hospitalsOK$72Louisiana: median $116 across 13 hospitalsLA$116Mississippi: median $62 across 17 hospitalsMS$62Alabama: median $89 across 13 hospitalsAL$89Georgia: median $180 across 55 hospitalsGA$180Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $302 across 61 hospitalsTX$302Florida: median $216 across 66 hospitalsFL$216
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $161. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC23$355+120%$125 – $728
California CA77$336+108%$157 – $449
Arizona AZ22$320+99%$62 – $376
Texas TX61$302+87%$177 – $331
Kentucky KY22$290+80%$76 – $710
Utah UT13$265+64%$261 – $326
Colorado CO29$265+64%$124 – $735
New Jersey NJ19$224+39%$65 – $393
Florida FL66$216+34%$110 – $420
Wisconsin WI61$192+19%$86 – $489
Georgia GA55$180+12%$83 – $378
Virginia VA30$173+7%$134 – $193
Kansas KS12$172+6%$130 – $560
Pennsylvania PA57$164+2%$41 – $348
New York NY35$1620%$82 – $298
Washington WA25$160−1%$144 – $172
Maryland MD24$154−4%$72 – $229
Massachusetts MA36$151−6%$86 – $449
Oregon OR18$148−8%$123 – $278
Indiana IN45$148−8%$93 – $236
Minnesota MN28$138−14%$110 – $246
Iowa IA26$131−19%$86 – $188
Michigan MI54$130−19%$44 – $499
Ohio OH57$128−20%$96 – $292
Connecticut CT11$125−22%$95 – $181
Illinois IL57$125−22%$77 – $310
Missouri MO40$122−24%$46 – $275
Louisiana LA13$116−28%$32 – $207
North Carolina NC42$105−35%$83 – $328
Nebraska NE18$100−38%$99 – $204
Arkansas AR12$100−38%$54 – $168
Alabama AL13$89−45%$82 – $263
Oklahoma OK16$72−55%$72 – $123
Mississippi MS17$62−61%$32 – $85
Tennessee TN30$55−66%$45 – $85
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $161.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,028$161$78 – $336
Children’s51$382$147 – $615
Critical access168$138$71 – $236
Ownership
For-profit105$223$89 – $410
Government163$117$64 – $259
Non-profit979$162$83 – $336
System affiliation
Part of a system1,066$162$83 – $336
Independent186$145$72 – $278

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$278
Median cash price$161
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

936 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $171 and the average of the middle 60% is $186; most fall between $83 and $333.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 936 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
$58$92$171$306$449

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($58 vs $449).

Of the 983 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 936 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 26 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,252 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (32%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,334 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,252
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here29
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 — excluded53
Hospitals that filed this code1,334

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 Nonextremty Mscles W/Nerve Conduction|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, “Nerve-muscle electrical test of head, face or trunk muscles (CPT 95887) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95887-nerve-muscle-electrical-test-of-head-face-or-trunk-muscles