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Brain stimulator check with programming, first 15 minutes

CPT 95983the billing code this page is about

Electronic testing and adjustment of an implanted deep brain stimulator by a physician or other qualified provider; this code covers the first 15 minutes of programming time.

Hospitals typically charge $125 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 618 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $144. Most fall between $70 and $321 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
618
States
48
Filings dated
Nov 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 618 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
$46$76$125$253$411

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($46 vs $411).

How the prices are spread

$33 – $43: 25 hospitals$33$43 – $57: 35 hospitals$57 – $75: 52 hospitals$57$75 – $99: 87 hospitals$99 – $130: 89 hospitals$99$130 – $172: 75 hospitals$172 – $227: 52 hospitals$172$227 – $299: 39 hospitals$299 – $395: 55 hospitals$299$395 – $521: 54 hospitals$395median $125price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (563 of 618 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$33$4325
$43$5735
$57$7552
$75$9987
$99$13089
$130$17275
$172$22752
$227$29939
$299$39555
$395$52154

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$97
Median cash price$125
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 $125.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $126 across 24 hospitalsWA$126Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $125 across 17 hospitalsIL$125Wisconsin: median $147 across 28 hospitalsWI$147Michigan: median $131 across 42 hospitalsMI$131New York: median $113 across 32 hospitalsNY$113Massachusetts: median $193 across 14 hospitalsMA$193Oregon: median $90 across 13 hospitalsOR$90Nevada: 4 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 $160 across 15 hospitalsIA$160Indiana: median $81 across 20 hospitalsIN$81Ohio: median $332 across 49 hospitalsOH$332Pennsylvania: median $104 across 22 hospitalsPA$104New Jersey: median $102 across 13 hospitalsNJ$102Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $352 across 48 hospitalsCA$352Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $68 across 21 hospitalsMO$68Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $85 across 23 hospitalsVA$85Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $176 across 16 hospitalsAZ$176New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $399 across 18 hospitalsNC$399South Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $97 across 12 hospitalsOK$97Louisiana: median $65 across 13 hospitalsLA$65Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $74 across 15 hospitalsGA$74Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $121 across 36 hospitalsTX$121Florida: median $187 across 17 hospitalsFL$187
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $125. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
North Carolina NC18$399+219%$101 – $399
California CA48$352+181%$239 – $521
Ohio OH49$332+166%$88 – $991
Massachusetts MA14$193+54%$128 – $390
Florida FL17$187+49%$15 – $277
Arizona AZ16$176+41%$86 – $176
Iowa IA15$160+28%$160 – $160
Wisconsin WI28$147+18%$119 – $173
Michigan MI42$131+5%$54 – $331
Washington WA24$126+1%$83 – $326
Illinois IL17$1250%$75 – $253
Texas TX36$121−3%$121 – $184
New York NY32$113−10%$109 – $263
Pennsylvania PA22$104−17%$31 – $189
New Jersey NJ13$102−19%$102 – $123
Oklahoma OK12$97−23%$97 – $97
Oregon OR13$90−28%$75 – $114
Virginia VA23$85−32%$33 – $163
Indiana IN20$81−35%$62 – $103
Georgia GA15$74−41%$74 – $292
Missouri MO21$68−46%$33 – $86
Louisiana LA13$65−48%$31 – $230
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $125.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care530$127$68 – $326
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access67$114$74 – $154
Ownership
For-profit48$121$75 – $274
Government88$120$56 – $279
Non-profit478$127$70 – $326
System affiliation
Part of a system544$126$70 – $326
Independent74$123$69 – $252

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$215
Median cash price$125
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

453 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $149 and the average of the middle 60% is $173; most fall between $75 and $352.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 453 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$85$149$310$440

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($50 vs $440).

Of the 475 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 453 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

618 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 648 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted618
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here12
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 — excluded18
Hospitals that filed this code648

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 Brn Npgt Prgrmg 1st 15 Min.

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, “Brain stimulator check with programming, first 15 minutes (CPT 95983) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95983-brain-stimulator-check-with-programming-first-15-minutes