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Spine or nerve stimulator check with simple reprogramming

CPT 95971the billing code this page is about

Electronic testing of an implanted spinal cord or peripheral nerve stimulator along with simple adjustment of its settings during the visit.

Hospitals typically charge $200 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,114 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $247. Most fall between $96 and $526 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,114
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 1,114 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
$63$111$200$444$718

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($63 vs $718).

How the prices are spread

$47 – $65: 64 hospitals$47$65 – $90: 78 hospitals$90 – $125: 138 hospitals$90$125 – $174: 166 hospitals$174 – $241: 113 hospitals$174$241 – $334: 105 hospitals$334 – $464: 124 hospitals$334$464 – $643: 138 hospitals$643 – $893: 41 hospitals$643$893 – $1,239: 37 hospitals$893median $200price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,004 of 1,114 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$47$6564
$65$9078
$90$125138
$125$174166
$174$241113
$241$334105
$334$464124
$464$643138
$643$89341
$893$1,23937

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$97
Median cash price$200
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.1×

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 $200.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $172 across 27 hospitalsWA$172Idaho: median $412 across 12 hospitalsID$412Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $148 across 34 hospitalsMN$148Illinois: median $259 across 51 hospitalsIL$259Wisconsin: median $165 across 62 hospitalsWI$165Michigan: median $154 across 58 hospitalsMI$154New York: median $113 across 43 hospitalsNY$113Massachusetts: median $307 across 23 hospitalsMA$307Oregon: median $87 across 12 hospitalsOR$87Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 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 $111 across 23 hospitalsIA$111Indiana: median $162 across 37 hospitalsIN$162Ohio: median $411 across 73 hospitalsOH$411Pennsylvania: median $110 across 46 hospitalsPA$110New Jersey: median $120 across 22 hospitalsNJ$120Connecticut: 9 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 $526 across 67 hospitalsCA$526Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $291 across 28 hospitalsCO$291Nebraska: median $138 across 15 hospitalsNE$138Missouri: median $287 across 31 hospitalsMO$287Kentucky: median $311 across 15 hospitalsKY$311West Virginia: median $110 across 22 hospitalsWV$110Virginia: median $246 across 32 hospitalsVA$246Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $117 across 11 hospitalsAZ$117New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $103 across 14 hospitalsKS$103Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $60 across 26 hospitalsTN$60North Carolina: median $266 across 37 hospitalsNC$266South Carolina: median $345 across 33 hospitalsSC$345Oklahoma: median $139 across 24 hospitalsOK$139Louisiana: median $167 across 21 hospitalsLA$167Mississippi: median $69 across 11 hospitalsMS$69Alabama: median $172 across 10 hospitalsAL$172Georgia: median $696 across 22 hospitalsGA$696Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $530 across 47 hospitalsTX$530Florida: median $348 across 33 hospitalsFL$348
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $200. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA22$696+248%$628 – $1,692
Texas TX47$530+165%$95 – $579
California CA67$526+163%$150 – $528
Idaho ID12$412+106%$166 – $435
Ohio OH73$411+106%$169 – $1,077
Florida FL33$348+74%$220 – $711
South Carolina SC33$345+72%$217 – $594
Kentucky KY15$311+55%$147 – $532
Massachusetts MA23$307+53%$166 – $485
Colorado CO28$291+46%$239 – $1,067
Missouri MO31$287+44%$74 – $629
North Carolina NC37$266+33%$153 – $561
Illinois IL51$259+29%$104 – $495
Virginia VA32$246+23%$60 – $434
Washington WA27$172−14%$104 – $364
Alabama AL10$172−14%$84 – $1,870
Louisiana LA21$167−17%$96 – $252
Wisconsin WI62$165−17%$125 – $346
Indiana IN37$162−19%$64 – $246
Michigan MI58$154−23%$51 – $406
Minnesota MN34$148−26%$125 – $303
Oklahoma OK24$139−30%$78 – $688
Nebraska NE15$138−31%$77 – $358
New Jersey NJ22$120−40%$102 – $558
Arizona AZ11$117−42%$80 – $268
New York NY43$113−44%$97 – $410
Iowa IA23$111−44%$92 – $589
Pennsylvania PA46$110−45%$67 – $450
West Virginia WV22$110−45%$91 – $179
Kansas KS14$103−48%$60 – $244
Oregon OR12$87−56%$71 – $87
Mississippi MS11$69−65%$61 – $425
Tennessee TN26$60−70%$59 – $170
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $200.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care898$233$104 – $528
Children’s21$138$96 – $677
Critical access188$148$74 – $258
Ownership
For-profit108$248$114 – $932
Government151$188$91 – $547
Non-profit848$193$97 – $515
System affiliation
Part of a system947$219$100 – $528
Independent167$161$90 – $338

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$399
Median cash price$200
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

775 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $255 and the average of the middle 60% is $281; most fall between $110 and $530.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 775 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
$65$125$255$526$816

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($65 vs $816).

Of the 820 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 775 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 29 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,114 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (28%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,182 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,114
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here28
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded39
Hospitals that filed this code1,182

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 Hp 95971 Elec Alys Implt Npgt Smpl Sp/Pn Npgt Prgrmg.

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, “Spine or nerve stimulator check with simple reprogramming (CPT 95971) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95971-spine-or-nerve-stimulator-check-with-simple-reprogramming