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Procedure price report · Electroencephalogram (EEG)

Brain mapping with electrode stimulation, first hour

CPT 95961the billing code this page is about

Stimulation of implanted brain electrodes to map which areas control movement, speech or sensation, with a physician or other qualified provider present; this code covers the first hour of mapping.

Hospitals typically charge $1,116 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 889 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,194. Most fall between $417 and $2,230 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
889
States
50
Filings dated
Jun 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 889 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
$278$534$1,116$2,038$2,940

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($278 vs $2,940).

How the prices are spread

$201 – $271: 45 hospitals$201$271 – $364: 60 hospitals$364 – $489: 60 hospitals$364$489 – $658: 68 hospitals$658 – $884: 78 hospitals$658$884 – $1,189: 135 hospitals$1,189 – $1,599: 102 hospitals$1,189$1,599 – $2,150: 97 hospitals$2,150 – $2,891: 101 hospitals$2,150$2,891 – $3,888: 59 hospitals$2,891median $1,116price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (805 of 889 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$201$27145
$271$36460
$364$48960
$489$65868
$658$88478
$884$1,189135
$1,189$1,599102
$1,599$2,15097
$2,150$2,891101
$2,891$3,88859

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$877
Median cash price$1,116
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.27×

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 $1,116.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 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: median $1,525 across 17 hospitalsWA$1,525Idaho: median $2,880 across 10 hospitalsID$2,880Montana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $600 across 20 hospitalsMN$600Illinois: median $1,027 across 41 hospitalsIL$1,027Wisconsin: median $1,495 across 28 hospitalsWI$1,495Michigan: median $1,116 across 46 hospitalsMI$1,116New York: median $1,204 across 28 hospitalsNY$1,204Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $369 across 16 hospitalsOR$369Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $313 across 14 hospitalsIA$313Indiana: median $620 across 18 hospitalsIN$620Ohio: median $1,611 across 53 hospitalsOH$1,611Pennsylvania: median $1,147 across 48 hospitalsPA$1,147New Jersey: median $1,127 across 18 hospitalsNJ$1,127Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,262 across 75 hospitalsCA$2,262Utah: median $2,880 across 22 hospitalsUT$2,880Colorado: median $1,572 across 26 hospitalsCO$1,572Nebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,169 across 13 hospitalsMO$1,169Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $672 across 27 hospitalsVA$672Maryland: median $470 across 10 hospitalsMD$470Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $417 across 13 hospitalsAZ$417New Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $283 across 20 hospitalsTN$283North Carolina: median $693 across 18 hospitalsNC$693South Carolina: median $2,160 across 17 hospitalsSC$2,160Oklahoma: median $278 across 17 hospitalsOK$278Louisiana: median $609 across 11 hospitalsLA$609Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,527 across 42 hospitalsGA$1,527Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,031 across 78 hospitalsTX$1,031Florida: median $1,562 across 57 hospitalsFL$1,562
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,116. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID10$2,880+158%$700 – $4,833
Utah UT22$2,880+158%$2,880 – $3,200
California CA75$2,262+103%$1,475 – $2,940
South Carolina SC17$2,160+94%$567 – $2,160
Ohio OH53$1,611+44%$772 – $3,234
Colorado CO26$1,572+41%$1,136 – $4,356
Florida FL57$1,562+40%$622 – $2,573
Georgia GA42$1,527+37%$497 – $2,482
Washington WA17$1,525+37%$501 – $2,131
Wisconsin WI28$1,495+34%$704 – $1,720
New York NY28$1,204+8%$672 – $1,367
Missouri MO13$1,169+5%$543 – $1,764
Pennsylvania PA48$1,147+3%$203 – $2,347
New Jersey NJ18$1,127+1%$1,112 – $4,021
Michigan MI46$1,1160%$392 – $1,755
Texas TX78$1,031−8%$752 – $1,400
Illinois IL41$1,027−8%$404 – $2,122
North Carolina NC18$693−38%$251 – $1,173
Virginia VA27$672−40%$283 – $818
Indiana IN18$620−44%$467 – $781
Louisiana LA11$609−45%$222 – $1,194
Minnesota MN20$600−46%$213 – $1,100
Maryland MD10$470−58%$318 – $681
Arizona AZ13$417−63%$268 – $1,054
Oregon OR16$369−67%$216 – $1,574
Iowa IA14$313−72%$313 – $313
Tennessee TN20$283−75%$120 – $444
Oklahoma OK17$278−75%$278 – $399
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $1,116.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care773$1,126$403 – $2,230
Children’s38$764$547 – $2,068
Critical access72$1,173$449 – $2,233
Ownership
For-profit86$1,112$467 – $2,365
Government80$1,054$404 – $1,848
Non-profit717$1,126$417 – $2,230
System affiliation
Part of a system814$1,138$440 – $2,233
Independent75$813$326 – $1,588

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,905
Median cash price$1,116
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

676 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,138 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,302; most fall between $466 and $2,430.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 676 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
$278$607$1,138$2,160$3,200

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($278 vs $3,200).

Of the 707 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 676 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 19 a list price only.

How complete is this

889 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 925 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted889
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here10
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 — excluded26
Hospitals that filed this code925

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 Funcjal Cort&Subcort Mapg Phys/Qhp Attnd Init Hr|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, “Brain mapping with electrode stimulation, first hour (CPT 95961) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95961-brain-mapping-with-electrode-stimulation-first-hour