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Stomach nerve stimulator check without reprogramming

CPT 95981the billing code this page is about

Follow-up electronic testing of an implanted gastric nerve stimulator after surgery, with no changes made to the settings.

Hospitals typically charge $78 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 312 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $106. Most fall between $48 and $206 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
312
States
41
Filings dated
Dec 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 312 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
$33$56$78$183$298

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($33 vs $298).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $25: 5 hospitals$19$25 – $33: 13 hospitals$33 – $44: 18 hospitals$33$44 – $58: 32 hospitals$58 – $77: 69 hospitals$58$77 – $102: 25 hospitals$102 – $134: 27 hospitals$102$134 – $177: 29 hospitals$177 – $233: 27 hospitals$177$233 – $308: 45 hospitals$233median $78price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (290 of 312 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$255
$25$3313
$33$4418
$44$5832
$58$7769
$77$10225
$102$13427
$134$17729
$177$23327
$233$30845

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$78
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.29×

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 $78.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $70 across 25 hospitalsNY$70Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $77 across 14 hospitalsIA$77Indiana: median $56 across 14 hospitalsIN$56Ohio: median $78 across 10 hospitalsOH$78Pennsylvania: median $13 across 16 hospitalsPA$13New Jersey: median $66 across 12 hospitalsNJ$66Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $308 across 35 hospitalsCA$308Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $245 across 13 hospitalsNC$245South Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $34 across 12 hospitalsOK$34Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $187 across 15 hospitalsGA$187Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $130 across 32 hospitalsTX$130Florida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $78. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA35$308+295%$206 – $308
North Carolina NC13$245+215%$133 – $245
Georgia GA15$187+140%$143 – $187
Texas TX32$130+66%$130 – $158
Ohio OH10$780%$43 – $79
Iowa IA14$77−2%$77 – $77
New York NY25$70−10%$60 – $75
New Jersey NJ12$66−16%$65 – $70
Indiana IN14$56−28%$42 – $76
Oklahoma OK12$34−56%$34 – $34
Pennsylvania PA16$13−84%$11 – $60
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not 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 $78.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care282$81$52 – $206
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access24$57$29 – $89
Ownership
For-profit33$124$30 – $170
Government43$90$65 – $245
Non-profit236$77$47 – $206
System affiliation
Part of a system279$81$49 – $206
Independent33$65$47 – $167

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$198
Median cash price$78
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

217 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $142 and the average of the middle 60% is $138; most fall between $47 and $245.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 217 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
$33$64$142$206$308

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($33 vs $308).

Of the 230 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 217 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

312 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 328 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted312
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here9
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 — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code328

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 Nstim Gen Gastric Sbsq W/O Reprgrmg.

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, “Stomach nerve stimulator check without reprogramming (CPT 95981) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95981-stomach-nerve-stimulator-check-without-reprogramming