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Motor nerve pathway study to both arms and legs

CPT 95939the billing code this page is about

Stimulation of the brain's motor area with recording of muscle responses in both the arms and the legs in one test session.

Hospitals typically charge $1,265 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,087 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,372. Most fall between $568 and $2,509 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,087
States
49
Filings dated
Mar 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 1,087 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
$345$704$1,265$2,074$3,422

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($345 vs $3,422).

How the prices are spread

$214 – $291: 40 hospitals$214$291 – $395: 55 hospitals$395 – $536: 54 hospitals$395$536 – $728: 73 hospitals$728 – $989: 122 hospitals$728$989 – $1,342: 180 hospitals$1,342 – $1,823: 163 hospitals$1,342$1,823 – $2,475: 125 hospitals$2,475 – $3,361: 106 hospitals$2,475$3,361 – $4,563: 61 hospitals$3,361median $1,265price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (979 of 1,087 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$214$29140
$291$39555
$395$53654
$536$72873
$728$989122
$989$1,342180
$1,342$1,823163
$1,823$2,475125
$2,475$3,361106
$3,361$4,56361

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$877
Median cash price$1,265
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.44×

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 $1,265.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,387 across 20 hospitalsWA$1,387Idaho: median $2,797 across 10 hospitalsID$2,797Montana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,048 across 26 hospitalsMN$1,048Illinois: median $1,435 across 43 hospitalsIL$1,435Wisconsin: median $1,651 across 58 hospitalsWI$1,651Michigan: median $1,333 across 48 hospitalsMI$1,333New York: median $1,204 across 32 hospitalsNY$1,204Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,408 across 18 hospitalsOR$1,408Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 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 $1,478 across 19 hospitalsIA$1,478Indiana: median $1,037 across 35 hospitalsIN$1,037Ohio: median $1,022 across 55 hospitalsOH$1,022Pennsylvania: median $1,338 across 49 hospitalsPA$1,338New Jersey: median $1,198 across 23 hospitalsNJ$1,198Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,017 across 107 hospitalsCA$2,017Utah: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,008 across 30 hospitalsCO$1,008Nebraska: median $965 across 11 hospitalsNE$965Missouri: median $1,169 across 20 hospitalsMO$1,169Kentucky: median $3,766 across 18 hospitalsKY$3,766West Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,308 across 29 hospitalsVA$1,308Maryland: median $1,268 across 19 hospitalsMD$1,268Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $1,054 across 11 hospitalsAZ$1,054New Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $348 across 20 hospitalsTN$348North Carolina: median $1,308 across 32 hospitalsNC$1,308South Carolina: median $1,028 across 30 hospitalsSC$1,028Oklahoma: median $228 across 18 hospitalsOK$228Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $670 across 53 hospitalsGA$670Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,084 across 86 hospitalsTX$1,084Florida: median $1,927 across 64 hospitalsFL$1,927
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,265. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY18$3,766+198%$905 – $4,085
Idaho ID10$2,797+121%$223 – $4,833
California CA107$2,017+59%$1,141 – $2,509
Florida FL64$1,927+52%$759 – $3,422
Wisconsin WI58$1,651+30%$688 – $4,396
Iowa IA19$1,478+17%$270 – $2,060
Illinois IL43$1,435+13%$556 – $3,392
Oregon OR18$1,408+11%$736 – $2,710
Washington WA20$1,387+10%$577 – $2,978
Pennsylvania PA49$1,338+6%$330 – $2,453
Michigan MI48$1,333+5%$140 – $2,914
Virginia VA29$1,308+3%$649 – $1,430
North Carolina NC32$1,308+3%$689 – $1,581
Maryland MD19$1,2680%$658 – $1,840
New York NY32$1,204−5%$1,072 – $2,000
New Jersey NJ23$1,198−5%$1,126 – $1,395
Missouri MO20$1,169−8%$876 – $2,224
Texas TX86$1,084−14%$446 – $1,994
Arizona AZ11$1,054−17%$502 – $1,638
Minnesota MN26$1,048−17%$837 – $1,808
Indiana IN35$1,037−18%$745 – $1,505
South Carolina SC30$1,028−19%$708 – $1,331
Ohio OH55$1,022−19%$392 – $4,563
Colorado CO30$1,008−20%$771 – $2,141
Nebraska NE11$965−24%$538 – $1,065
Georgia GA53$670−47%$317 – $1,796
Tennessee TN20$348−73%$103 – $504
Oklahoma OK18$228−82%$200 – $228
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $1,265.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care945$1,210$538 – $2,450
Children’s36$1,402$746 – $2,860
Critical access101$1,561$688 – $2,681
Ownership
For-profit118$1,308$538 – $2,880
Government106$1,150$450 – $2,164
Non-profit858$1,268$593 – $2,418
System affiliation
Part of a system986$1,308$588 – $2,509
Independent101$1,021$525 – $1,840

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,183
Median cash price$1,265
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

837 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,352 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,427; most fall between $649 and $2,509.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 837 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
$380$759$1,352$2,141$3,576

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($380 vs $3,576).

Of the 876 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 837 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 22 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,087 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 1,133 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,087
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here22
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded23
Hospitals that filed this code1,133

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 Ctr Motr Ep Std Transcrnl Motr Stim Upr&Low Li|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, “Motor nerve pathway study to both arms and legs (CPT 95939) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95939-motor-nerve-pathway-study-to-both-arms-and-legs