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Cranial nerve stimulator check with simple reprogramming

CPT 95976the billing code this page is about

Electronic testing of an implanted cranial nerve stimulator, such as a vagus nerve device, with simple adjustment of its settings.

Hospitals typically charge $99 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 990 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $114. Most fall between $44 and $304 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
990
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 990 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
$30$51$99$216$441

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($30 vs $441).

How the prices are spread

$24 – $33: 65 hospitals$24$33 – $47: 114 hospitals$47 – $66: 113 hospitals$47$66 – $92: 134 hospitals$92 – $128: 128 hospitals$92$128 – $179: 102 hospitals$179 – $251: 64 hospitals$179$251 – $351: 34 hospitals$351 – $491: 104 hospitals$351$491 – $687: 40 hospitals$491median $99price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (898 of 990 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$24$3365
$33$47114
$47$66113
$66$92134
$92$128128
$128$179102
$179$25164
$251$35134
$351$491104
$491$68740

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$38
Median cash price$99
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.6×

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 $99.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 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 $98 across 25 hospitalsWA$98Idaho: median $177 across 10 hospitalsID$177Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $281 across 19 hospitalsMN$281Illinois: median $78 across 29 hospitalsIL$78Wisconsin: median $144 across 44 hospitalsWI$144Michigan: median $67 across 47 hospitalsMI$67New York: median $47 across 37 hospitalsNY$47Massachusetts: median $144 across 20 hospitalsMA$144Oregon: median $69 across 12 hospitalsOR$69Nevada: 4 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 23 hospitalsIA$114Indiana: median $167 across 35 hospitalsIN$167Ohio: median $167 across 53 hospitalsOH$167Pennsylvania: median $60 across 48 hospitalsPA$60New Jersey: median $48 across 22 hospitalsNJ$48Connecticut: median $102 across 10 hospitalsCT$102Rhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $352 across 58 hospitalsCA$352Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $228 across 13 hospitalsCO$228Nebraska: median $49 across 20 hospitalsNE$49Missouri: median $54 across 36 hospitalsMO$54Kentucky: median $85 across 23 hospitalsKY$85West Virginia: median $90 across 11 hospitalsWV$90Virginia: median $61 across 28 hospitalsVA$61Maryland: 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 $123 across 15 hospitalsAZ$123New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $43 across 15 hospitalsTN$43North Carolina: median $120 across 33 hospitalsNC$120South Carolina: median $339 across 20 hospitalsSC$339Oklahoma: median $35 across 13 hospitalsOK$35Louisiana: median $62 across 24 hospitalsLA$62Mississippi: median $38 across 16 hospitalsMS$38Alabama: median $63 across 13 hospitalsAL$63Georgia: median $99 across 39 hospitalsGA$99Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $353 across 70 hospitalsTX$353Florida: median $109 across 30 hospitalsFL$109
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $99. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX70$353+257%$130 – $441
California CA58$352+256%$104 – $431
South Carolina SC20$339+242%$57 – $477
Minnesota MN19$281+184%$85 – $281
Colorado CO13$228+130%$84 – $520
Idaho ID10$177+79%$35 – $177
Ohio OH53$167+69%$79 – $1,038
Indiana IN35$167+68%$61 – $358
Wisconsin WI44$144+46%$118 – $475
Massachusetts MA20$144+45%$103 – $189
Arizona AZ15$123+24%$62 – $123
North Carolina NC33$120+21%$52 – $373
Iowa IA23$114+15%$66 – $114
Florida FL30$109+10%$73 – $152
Connecticut CT10$102+4%$90 – $165
Georgia GA39$990%$40 – $108
Washington WA25$98−1%$62 – $226
West Virginia WV11$90−9%$65 – $141
Kentucky KY23$85−14%$38 – $358
Illinois IL29$78−21%$60 – $203
Oregon OR12$69−30%$37 – $95
Michigan MI47$67−32%$51 – $144
Alabama AL13$63−36%$52 – $308
Louisiana LA24$62−37%$25 – $112
Virginia VA28$61−39%$26 – $85
Pennsylvania PA48$60−39%$31 – $295
Missouri MO36$54−45%$28 – $75
Nebraska NE20$49−51%$24 – $61
New Jersey NJ22$48−51%$41 – $28,615
New York NY37$47−53%$44 – $183
Tennessee TN15$43−57%$19 – $85
Mississippi MS16$38−62%$25 – $54
Oklahoma OK13$35−64%$35 – $76
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not 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 $99.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care830$97$41 – $339
Children’s28$150$64 – $553
Critical access130$97$52 – $228
Ownership
For-profit75$123$49 – $339
Government144$75$41 – $329
Non-profit769$102$43 – $295
System affiliation
Part of a system841$105$44 – $348
Independent149$74$38 – $213

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$143
Median cash price$99
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

748 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $114 and the average of the middle 60% is $137; most fall between $47 and $353.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 748 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
$34$61$114$242$492

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($34 vs $492).

Of the 788 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 748 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 0 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

990 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (25%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,042 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted990
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here23
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 — excluded29
Hospitals that filed this code1,042

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 Smpl Cn 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, “Cranial nerve stimulator check with simple reprogramming (CPT 95976) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95976-cranial-nerve-stimulator-check-with-simple-reprogramming