How much does Medicare pay for CPT 95887?

Medicare allowed an average of $70.44 per service and paid $55.78 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $266.58, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 95887?

Needle measurement of electrical activity in trunk or head muscles. It was billed 8,154 times to 7,699 Medicare beneficiaries by 202 providers in 2024.

Does 95887 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $79.25 in an office setting and $36.36 in a facility. The office rate is generally higher because the practice supplies the room, staff and equipment out of that single payment; in a hospital those are billed separately by the facility.

Which specialty bills 95887 most?

Neurology, with 5,744 services from 157 clinicians. Next are Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Physical Therapist in Private Practice, Internal Medicine.

CPT 95887

Needle measurement of electrical activity in trunk or head muscles

$70.44Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 8,154 services

Providers submitted

$266.58

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$70.44

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$55.78

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $266.58 for this code and Medicare allowed $70.44 — 3.8× less. That gap is normal and means nothing on its own: Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of what is billed, so the submitted figure describes a hospital chargemaster, not a price anyone paid. Of the allowed amount Medicare paid $55.78 (79%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $79.25
Hospital / facility: $36.36

The office rate is higher because the practice supplies the room, staff and equipment out of that payment. In a hospital the facility bills those separately, so the clinician's share is smaller — the total cost to Medicare is usually higher, not lower. 6,479 services were billed in an office setting and 1,674 in a facility.

Services: 8,154
Beneficiaries: 7,699
Providers billing it: 202
Total allowed: $574,368

What Medicare pays for CPT 95887

Across 8,154 services billed by 202 providers to 7,699 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $70.44 per service. The allowed amount is the figure that matters: it is what Medicare and the patient together owe, set by the fee schedule and adjusted for local practice costs. What a provider chose to submit has no bearing on it.

Who bills 95887

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Neurology	5,744	5,499	$68.66	157
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	1,665	1,606	$78.61	30
Physical Therapist in Private Practice	258	249	$81.69	2
Internal Medicine	256	147	$60.94	4
Family Practice	72	43	$48.76	1
Orthopedic Surgery	53	50	$75.81	1
Audiologist	36	35	$37.62	2
Gastroenterology	20	20	$34.21	1
Pain Management	13	13	$83.90	1
Neuropsychiatry	13	13	$40.82	1
Nephrology	13	13	$34.86	1
Neurosurgery	11	11	$70.47	1

95887 reimbursement by state

Two different numbers. Allowed is what Medicare actually allowed in that state, which includes the local practice-cost adjustment. Standardized strips that geographic adjustment out of the payment, so it is the column to use when comparing states — a difference there reflects how the code was billed, not what it costs to run a practice locally.

State	Services	Allowed	Standardized pmt	Providers
California	1,847	$78.46	$56.31	41
New York	644	$70.95	$50.05	19
Minnesota	626	$80.45	$60.61	24
Georgia	479	$59.79	$48.82	6
Maryland	451	$81.73	$64.26	2
South Carolina	397	$75.47	$64.88	4
Colorado	353	$77.06	$60.49	6
Michigan	346	$78.08	$63.12	1
Texas	309	$58.04	$46.10	13
Florida	263	$41.95	$33.44	11
North Carolina	250	$66.56	$57.38	9
New Jersey	232	$82.59	$64.54	1
Ohio	212	$65.09	$59.91	4
Pennsylvania	208	$62.71	$47.26	6
Arizona	196	$69.03	$55.11	5
South Dakota	178	$34.47	$28.08	1
Massachusetts	161	$43.89	$31.61	8
Nebraska	156	$73.12	$64.66	3
Tennessee	130	$72.69	$67.54	4
Utah	113	$76.63	$63.59	4
Virginia	94	$68.75	$53.74	5
Illinois	90	$45.80	$33.54	5
Nevada	66	$81.43	$64.54	2
West Virginia	65	$67.10	$118.83	1
Missouri	47	$57.20	$45.50	2
Washington	44	$51.62	$39.39	3
New Hampshire	39	$37.19	$29.38	2
Kansas	24	$54.33	$44.82	2
Idaho	20	$33.77	$26.67	1
Mississippi	19	$31.79	$28.17	1
District of Columbia	18	$99.65	$64.60	1
Indiana	17	$70.81	$64.72	1
Hawaii	16	$89.86	$64.59	1
Oregon	16	$37.91	$24.67	1
Alabama	14	$69.88	$74.97	1
Wisconsin	13	$34.20	$28.15	1

Related codes

95886Needle measurement of electrical activity in arm or leg muscles$86.76
95816Measurement of brain wave activity (eeg)$227.96
95811Sleep study in sleep lab$314.61
95810Sleep study in sleep lab (6 years or older)$309.74
95800Sleep study including heart rate$117.17
95819Measurement of brain wave activity (eeg)$239.95
95885Needle measurement of electrical activity in arm or leg muscles$46.74
95806Sleep study including heart rate$54.06
95874Needle measurement of electrical activity in muscle$53.46
95861Needle measurement of electrical activity in arm or leg muscles$80.08
95870Needle measurement of electrical activity in arm$19.70
95813Measurement of brain wave activity (eeg)$202.49

Billing this code is not the same as earning it

An allowed amount is revenue to a practice, not income to a clinician. It funds staff, premises, equipment and supplies before anyone is paid. What clinicians actually earn is published separately by the Department of Labor, and what industry pays them is published separately again by CMS — this site carries both.

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Where this comes from. CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, by Provider and Service, 2024. It covers fee-for-service Original Medicare Part B only — not Medicare Advantage, not Medicaid, and not commercial insurance, which typically pays more for the same code.

How it is averaged. CMS publishes one average per provider per code. Every figure here is re-weighted by the number of services, so a clinician who billed the code 4,000 times counts 4,000 times more than one who billed it twice. CMS also suppresses any provider-code pair with fewer than 11 beneficiaries, so low-volume practice is missing from these totals by design.