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Brain stimulator programming, each extra 15 minutes

CPT 95984the billing code this page is about

Additional programming time for an implanted deep brain stimulator; billed once for each extra 15 minutes beyond the first 15.

Hospitals typically charge $109 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 556 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $111. Most fall between $53 and $219 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
556
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 556 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$57$109$181$340

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($34 vs $340).

How the prices are spread

$26 – $35: 34 hospitals$26$35 – $47: 32 hospitals$47 – $63: 69 hospitals$47$63 – $85: 57 hospitals$85 – $114: 77 hospitals$85$114 – $153: 87 hospitals$153 – $206: 52 hospitals$153$206 – $277: 49 hospitals$277 – $372: 31 hospitals$277$372 – $500: 21 hospitals$372median $109price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (509 of 556 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$26$3534
$35$4732
$47$6369
$63$8557
$85$11477
$114$15387
$153$20652
$206$27749
$277$37231
$372$50021

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $109.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $110 across 21 hospitalsWA$110Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $108 across 15 hospitalsIL$108Wisconsin: median $127 across 27 hospitalsWI$127Michigan: median $57 across 41 hospitalsMI$57New York: median $117 across 23 hospitalsNY$117Massachusetts: median $144 across 14 hospitalsMA$144Oregon: median $79 across 13 hospitalsOR$79Nevada: 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 $100 across 15 hospitalsIA$100Indiana: median $68 across 20 hospitalsIN$68Ohio: median $233 across 49 hospitalsOH$233Pennsylvania: median $32 across 21 hospitalsPA$32New Jersey: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 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 $250 across 47 hospitalsCA$250Utah: 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 $35 across 15 hospitalsMO$35Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $83 across 19 hospitalsVA$83Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $125 across 12 hospitalsAZ$125New 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: 4 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 $500 across 17 hospitalsNC$500South Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $85 across 10 hospitalsOK$85Louisiana: median $49 across 11 hospitalsLA$49Mississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $55 across 15 hospitalsGA$55Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $121 across 34 hospitalsTX$121Florida: median $173 across 16 hospitalsFL$173
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $109. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
North Carolina NC17$500+361%$88 – $500
California CA47$250+130%$235 – $354
Ohio OH49$233+115%$59 – $547
Florida FL16$173+59%$20 – $229
Massachusetts MA14$144+33%$107 – $185
Wisconsin WI27$127+17%$78 – $128
Arizona AZ12$125+15%$69 – $125
Texas TX34$121+12%$121 – $163
New York NY23$117+8%$45 – $202
Washington WA21$110+1%$43 – $204
Illinois IL15$108−1%$67 – $251
Iowa IA15$100−8%$100 – $100
Oklahoma OK10$85−22%$85 – $85
Virginia VA19$83−24%$29 – $110
Oregon OR13$79−28%$66 – $98
Indiana IN20$68−37%$54 – $86
Michigan MI41$57−48%$47 – $156
Georgia GA15$55−49%$55 – $215
Louisiana LA11$49−55%$26 – $109
Missouri MO15$35−68%$23 – $71
Pennsylvania PA21$32−70%$26 – $88
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not 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
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ2not 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 $109.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care471$108$48 – $233
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access65$106$54 – $134
Ownership
For-profit38$78$55 – $131
Government73$83$35 – $215
Non-profit441$110$54 – $233
System affiliation
Part of a system496$109$53 – $233
Independent60$83$43 – $155

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$175
Median cash price$109
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

426 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $121 and the average of the middle 60% is $126; most fall between $60 and $238.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 426 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
$39$66$121$215$354

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($39 vs $354).

Of the 452 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 426 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 3 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

556 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 608 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted556
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here16
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded34
Hospitals that filed this code608

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Ea Addl 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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Brain stimulator programming, each extra 15 minutes (CPT 95984) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95984-brain-stimulator-programming-each-extra-15-minutes