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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic nervous system procedures

Check of implanted nerve stimulator without reprogramming

CPT 95970the billing code this page is about

Electronic testing of an implanted brain, spinal cord or peripheral nerve stimulator's settings and function, with no changes made to the programming.

Hospitals typically charge $163 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,187 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $187. Most fall between $67 and $357 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,187
States
50
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 1,187 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$84$163$326$549

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($42 vs $549).

How the prices are spread

$30 – $41: 55 hospitals$30$41 – $56: 77 hospitals$56 – $77: 73 hospitals$56$77 – $106: 105 hospitals$106 – $145: 129 hospitals$106$145 – $200: 172 hospitals$200 – $275: 149 hospitals$200$275 – $378: 155 hospitals$378 – $519: 87 hospitals$378$519 – $714: 68 hospitals$519median $163price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,070 of 1,187 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$30$4155
$41$5677
$56$7773
$77$106105
$106$145129
$145$200172
$200$275149
$275$378155
$378$51987
$519$71468

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$163
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.20×

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 $163.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $132 across 12 hospitalsME$132Vermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $186 across 27 hospitalsWA$186Idaho: median $240 across 11 hospitalsID$240Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $227 across 24 hospitalsMN$227Illinois: median $202 across 53 hospitalsIL$202Wisconsin: median $197 across 62 hospitalsWI$197Michigan: median $183 across 62 hospitalsMI$183New York: median $295 across 51 hospitalsNY$295Massachusetts: median $295 across 24 hospitalsMA$295Oregon: median $42 across 22 hospitalsOR$42Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $114 across 29 hospitalsIA$114Indiana: median $77 across 39 hospitalsIN$77Ohio: median $408 across 77 hospitalsOH$408Pennsylvania: median $153 across 54 hospitalsPA$153New Jersey: median $152 across 22 hospitalsNJ$152Connecticut: median $191 across 13 hospitalsCT$191Rhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $148 across 68 hospitalsCA$148Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $283 across 31 hospitalsCO$283Nebraska: median $94 across 24 hospitalsNE$94Missouri: median $115 across 39 hospitalsMO$115Kentucky: median $156 across 28 hospitalsKY$156West Virginia: median $153 across 23 hospitalsWV$153Virginia: median $214 across 32 hospitalsVA$214Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $374 across 20 hospitalsAZ$374New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $55 across 10 hospitalsKS$55Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $57 across 25 hospitalsTN$57North Carolina: median $226 across 30 hospitalsNC$226South Carolina: median $272 across 20 hospitalsSC$272Oklahoma: median $33 across 20 hospitalsOK$33Louisiana: median $114 across 24 hospitalsLA$114Mississippi: median $68 across 20 hospitalsMS$68Alabama: median $209 across 13 hospitalsAL$209Georgia: median $386 across 25 hospitalsGA$386Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $247 across 40 hospitalsTX$247Florida: median $262 across 41 hospitalsFL$262
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $163. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH77$408+150%$142 – $578
Georgia GA25$386+136%$332 – $567
Arizona AZ20$374+129%$110 – $621
Massachusetts MA24$295+81%$149 – $604
New York NY51$295+81%$91 – $393
Colorado CO31$283+74%$155 – $536
South Carolina SC20$272+66%$163 – $362
Florida FL41$262+60%$176 – $343
Texas TX40$247+51%$101 – $262
Idaho ID11$240+47%$98 – $611
Minnesota MN24$227+39%$92 – $266
North Carolina NC30$226+38%$103 – $247
Virginia VA32$214+31%$55 – $326
Alabama AL13$209+28%$110 – $345
Illinois IL53$202+23%$81 – $460
Wisconsin WI62$197+21%$66 – $351
Connecticut CT13$191+17%$105 – $336
Washington WA27$186+14%$128 – $288
Michigan MI62$183+12%$20 – $324
Kentucky KY28$156−4%$75 – $417
Pennsylvania PA54$153−6%$56 – $356
West Virginia WV23$153−6%$121 – $219
New Jersey NJ22$152−7%$143 – $172
California CA68$148−9%$124 – $329
Maine ME12$132−19%$56 – $269
Missouri MO39$115−30%$33 – $328
Iowa IA29$114−30%$42 – $124
Louisiana LA24$114−30%$64 – $208
Nebraska NE24$94−42%$77 – $173
Indiana IN39$77−53%$50 – $151
Mississippi MS20$68−58%$53 – $157
Tennessee TN25$57−65%$55 – $159
Kansas KS10$55−67%$44 – $144
Oregon OR22$42−74%$34 – $105
Oklahoma OK20$33−80%$33 – $63
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $163.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care958$172$77 – $365
Children’s29$125$78 – $536
Critical access195$128$50 – $262
Ownership
For-profit95$219$94 – $611
Government160$153$76 – $259
Non-profit927$160$66 – $357
System affiliation
Part of a system1,002$172$72 – $362
Independent185$130$53 – $295

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$308
Median cash price$163
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

833 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $197 and the average of the middle 60% is $213; most fall between $81 and $384.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 833 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$100$197$345$578

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($50 vs $578).

Of the 892 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 833 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 38 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,187 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (30%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,263 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,187
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here32
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 — excluded44
Hospitals that filed this code1,263

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 Elec Alys Implt Npgt Phys/Qhp W/O Programming.

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, “Check of implanted nerve stimulator without reprogramming (CPT 95970) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95970-check-of-implanted-nerve-stimulator-without-reprogramming