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Spine or nerve stimulator check with complex reprogramming

CPT 95972the billing code this page is about

Electronic testing of an implanted spinal cord or peripheral nerve stimulator with complex adjustment of multiple settings; the hospital's label refers to an older hourly version of this code.

Hospitals typically charge $233 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,232 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $269. Most fall between $110 and $600 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,232
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 1,232 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
$86$123$233$466$1,058

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($86 vs $1,058).

How the prices are spread

$57 – $80: 46 hospitals$57$80 – $110: 139 hospitals$110 – $153: 162 hospitals$110$153 – $212: 171 hospitals$212 – $294: 114 hospitals$212$294 – $407: 172 hospitals$407 – $564: 105 hospitals$407$564 – $782: 99 hospitals$782 – $1,083: 43 hospitals$782$1,083 – $1,502: 59 hospitals$1,083median $233price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,110 of 1,232 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$57$8046
$80$110139
$110$153162
$153$212171
$212$294114
$294$407172
$407$564105
$564$78299
$782$1,08343
$1,083$1,50259

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$97
Median cash price$233
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.4×

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 $233.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $93 across 10 hospitalsME$93Vermont: 4 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 $206 across 28 hospitalsWA$206Idaho: median $435 across 12 hospitalsID$435Montana: 6 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 $253 across 22 hospitalsMN$253Illinois: median $232 across 59 hospitalsIL$232Wisconsin: median $343 across 64 hospitalsWI$343Michigan: median $159 across 58 hospitalsMI$159New York: median $113 across 50 hospitalsNY$113Massachusetts: median $356 across 26 hospitalsMA$356Oregon: median $117 across 21 hospitalsOR$117Nevada: 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $198 across 27 hospitalsIA$198Indiana: median $188 across 45 hospitalsIN$188Ohio: median $405 across 90 hospitalsOH$405Pennsylvania: median $155 across 62 hospitalsPA$155New Jersey: median $121 across 26 hospitalsNJ$121Connecticut: 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 $352 across 77 hospitalsCA$352Utah: median $484 across 12 hospitalsUT$484Colorado: median $394 across 24 hospitalsCO$394Nebraska: median $240 across 17 hospitalsNE$240Missouri: median $270 across 35 hospitalsMO$270Kentucky: median $369 across 29 hospitalsKY$369West Virginia: median $130 across 26 hospitalsWV$130Virginia: median $435 across 31 hospitalsVA$435Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $137 across 20 hospitalsAZ$137New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $89 across 23 hospitalsKS$89Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $170 across 17 hospitalsTN$170North Carolina: median $193 across 40 hospitalsNC$193South Carolina: median $171 across 15 hospitalsSC$171Oklahoma: median $147 across 28 hospitalsOK$147Louisiana: median $200 across 19 hospitalsLA$200Mississippi: median $222 across 12 hospitalsMS$222Alabama: median $143 across 10 hospitalsAL$143Georgia: median $696 across 32 hospitalsGA$696Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $417 across 52 hospitalsTX$417Florida: median $514 across 36 hospitalsFL$514
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $233. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA32$696+199%$174 – $1,743
Florida FL36$514+121%$210 – $1,237
Utah UT12$484+108%$484 – $484
Idaho ID12$435+87%$111 – $435
Virginia VA31$435+87%$139 – $614
Texas TX52$417+79%$92 – $714
Ohio OH90$405+74%$172 – $1,410
Colorado CO24$394+69%$227 – $1,094
Kentucky KY29$369+58%$196 – $1,110
Massachusetts MA26$356+53%$194 – $1,798
California CA77$352+51%$170 – $728
Wisconsin WI64$343+47%$122 – $651
Missouri MO35$270+16%$106 – $604
Minnesota MN22$253+8%$151 – $332
Nebraska NE17$240+3%$134 – $310
Illinois IL59$2320%$106 – $595
Mississippi MS12$222−5%$80 – $302
Washington WA28$206−12%$112 – $336
Louisiana LA19$200−14%$123 – $271
Iowa IA27$198−15%$133 – $611
North Carolina NC40$193−17%$151 – $387
Indiana IN45$188−19%$127 – $353
South Carolina SC15$171−27%$78 – $352
Tennessee TN17$170−27%$110 – $228
Michigan MI58$159−32%$95 – $712
Pennsylvania PA62$155−33%$93 – $642
Oklahoma OK28$147−37%$119 – $295
Alabama AL10$143−39%$84 – $250
Arizona AZ20$137−41%$103 – $442
West Virginia WV26$130−44%$92 – $188
New Jersey NJ26$121−48%$102 – $240
Oregon OR21$117−50%$103 – $140
New York NY50$113−52%$86 – $389
Maine ME10$93−60%$73 – $172
Kansas KS23$89−62%$47 – $235
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $233.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care986$245$111 – $614
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access221$183$95 – $350
Ownership
For-profit127$318$121 – $919
Government193$185$103 – $387
Non-profit905$243$112 – $604
System affiliation
Part of a system1,011$267$114 – $614
Independent221$167$91 – $331

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$450
Median cash price$233
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

826 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $318 and the average of the middle 60% is $320; most fall between $131 and $644.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 826 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
$94$151$318$570$1,094

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($94 vs $1,094).

Of the 874 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 826 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 30 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,232 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (31%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,302 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,232
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
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 — excluded39
Hospitals that filed this code1,302

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 Cplx Sp/Pn 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 complex reprogramming (CPT 95972) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95972-spine-or-nerve-stimulator-check-with-complex-reprogramming