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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic nervous system procedures

Brain mapping of function during imaging

CPT 96020the billing code this page is about

Testing done alongside brain imaging in which a specialist administers tasks and interprets the responses to identify which brain areas control functions such as speech or movement.

Hospitals typically charge $417 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 307 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $463. Most fall between $213 and $777 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
307
States
42
Filings dated
Sep 2025 – 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 307 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
$143$260$417$746$1,367

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($143 vs $1,367).

How the prices are spread

$122 – $160: 22 hospitals$122$160 – $210: 19 hospitals$210 – $276: 37 hospitals$210$276 – $363: 49 hospitals$363 – $476: 23 hospitals$363$476 – $625: 40 hospitals$625 – $821: 46 hospitals$625$821 – $1,078: 20 hospitals$1,078 – $1,415: 13 hospitals$1,078$1,415 – $1,859: 10 hospitals$1,415median $417price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (279 of 307 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$122$16022
$160$21019
$210$27637
$276$36349
$363$47623
$476$62540
$625$82146
$821$1,07820
$1,078$1,41513
$1,415$1,85910

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $417.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $381 across 18 hospitalsIL$381Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $290 across 15 hospitalsIA$290Indiana: median $1,692 across 13 hospitalsIN$1,692Ohio: median $417 across 24 hospitalsOH$417Pennsylvania: median $539 across 10 hospitalsPA$539New Jersey: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $353 across 36 hospitalsCA$353Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $260 across 10 hospitalsOK$260Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $262 across 17 hospitalsGA$262Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $726 across 24 hospitalsTX$726Florida: median $515 across 20 hospitalsFL$515
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $417. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Indiana IN13$1,692+306%$1,468 – $2,287
Texas TX24$726+74%$572 – $777
Pennsylvania PA10$539+29%$212 – $1,248
Florida FL20$515+23%$141 – $892
Ohio OH24$4170%$291 – $520
Illinois IL18$381−9%$162 – $778
California CA36$353−15%$353 – $855
Iowa IA15$290−31%$202 – $290
Georgia GA17$262−37%$262 – $746
Oklahoma OK10$260−38%$260 – $260
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $417.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care253$400$213 – $769
Children’s24$632$168 – $1,229
Critical access26$625$262 – $1,702
Ownership
For-profit17fewer than 20 hospitals
Government29$292$128 – $657
Non-profit257$492$260 – $855
System affiliation
Part of a system274$417$213 – $777
Independent33$455$162 – $822

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$671
Median cash price$417
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

231 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $400 and the average of the middle 60% is $441; most fall between $260 and $754.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 231 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
$160$262$400$726$855

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($160 vs $855).

Of the 270 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 231 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

307 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 352 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted307
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 — excluded22
Hospitals that filed this code352

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 5, 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 Test Select & Admn Functl Brain Map Phys/Qhp|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT.

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 mapping of function during imaging (CPT 96020) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96020-brain-mapping-of-function-during-imaging