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Procedure price report · Electroencephalogram (EEG)

EEG with drug or physical activation of seizures

CPT 95954the billing code this page is about

Brain wave recording during which a medication or physical stimulus is given by a physician or other qualified provider to bring out abnormal activity.

Hospitals typically charge $588 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 380 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $636. Most fall between $233 and $1,383 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
380
States
44
Filings dated
Jul 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 380 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
$155$258$588$1,170$2,297

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($155 vs $2,297).

How the prices are spread

$110 – $152: 15 hospitals$110$152 – $209: 22 hospitals$209 – $289: 53 hospitals$209$289 – $399: 24 hospitals$399 – $550: 46 hospitals$399$550 – $759: 46 hospitals$759 – $1,047: 41 hospitals$759$1,047 – $1,444: 39 hospitals$1,444 – $1,992: 36 hospitals$1,444$1,992 – $2,749: 21 hospitals$1,992median $588price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (343 of 380 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$110$15215
$152$20922
$209$28953
$289$39924
$399$55046
$550$75946
$759$1,04741
$1,047$1,44439
$1,444$1,99236
$1,992$2,74921

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$381
Median cash price$588
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.54×

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 $588.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $577 across 13 hospitalsWA$577Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $264 across 17 hospitalsIL$264Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $628 across 27 hospitalsNY$628Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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 $258 across 15 hospitalsIA$258Indiana: median $185 across 14 hospitalsIN$185Ohio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $81 across 15 hospitalsPA$81New Jersey: median $587 across 11 hospitalsNJ$587Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,607 across 48 hospitalsCA$1,607Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $1,901 across 10 hospitalsKY$1,901West Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $233 across 19 hospitalsTN$233North Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $216 across 12 hospitalsOK$216Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $810 across 41 hospitalsTX$810Florida: median $1,303 across 23 hospitalsFL$1,303
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $588. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY10$1,901+223%$351 – $1,901
California CA48$1,607+173%$1,092 – $1,607
Florida FL23$1,303+122%$533 – $2,749
Texas TX41$810+38%$760 – $2,342
New York NY27$628+7%$466 – $839
New Jersey NJ11$5870%$580 – $588
Washington WA13$577−2%$467 – $953
Illinois IL17$264−55%$113 – $570
Iowa IA15$258−56%$258 – $319
Tennessee TN19$233−60%$79 – $239
Oklahoma OK12$216−63%$216 – $216
Indiana IN14$185−69%$162 – $262
Pennsylvania PA15$81−86%$68 – $538
Minnesota MN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $588.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care346$588$233 – $1,334
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access20$258$155 – $798
Ownership
For-profit38$718$168 – $2,342
Government48$533$252 – $1,193
Non-profit294$588$233 – $1,607
System affiliation
Part of a system333$600$233 – $1,607
Independent47$546$252 – $1,201

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,266
Median cash price$588
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

262 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $760 and the average of the middle 60% is $806; most fall between $243 and $1,607.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 262 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
$216$258$760$1,327$2,335

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($216 vs $2,335).

Of the 287 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 262 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

380 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 401 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted380
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here11
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 — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code401

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 Electroencephalogram (EEG) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Rx/Physical Eeg Activaj Phys/Qhp Attendance.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “EEG with drug or physical activation of seizures (CPT 95954) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95954-eeg-with-drug-or-physical-activation-of-seizures