How much does Medicare pay for CPT 95939?

Medicare allowed an average of $122.96 per service and paid $97.44 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $4533.25, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 95939?

Placement of skin electrodes and measurement of central motor stimulation in arms and legs. It was billed 51,987 times to 51,111 Medicare beneficiaries by 462 providers in 2024.

Does 95939 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $448.10 in an office setting and $115.98 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 95939 most?

Neurology, with 43,420 services from 387 clinicians. Next are Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF), Audiologist.

CPT 95939

Placement of skin electrodes and measurement of central motor stimulation in arms and legs

$122.96Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 51,987 services

Providers submitted

$4533.25

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$122.96

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$97.44

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $4533.25 for this code and Medicare allowed $122.96 — 36.9× 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 $97.44 (79%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $448.10
Hospital / facility: $115.98

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. 1,092 services were billed in an office setting and 50,895 in a facility.

Services: 51,987
Beneficiaries: 51,111
Providers billing it: 462
Total allowed: $6,392,322

What Medicare pays for CPT 95939

Across 51,987 services billed by 462 providers to 51,111 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $122.96 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 95939

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Neurology	43,420	42,760	$116.75	387
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	2,918	2,841	$109.49	23
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	1,082	1,057	$425.42	4
Audiologist	980	955	$121.71	9
Anesthesiology	718	702	$120.88	7
Neuropsychiatry	558	548	$119.50	12
Pediatric Medicine	483	475	$119.84	2
Neurosurgery	364	355	$115.34	7
Sleep Medicine	334	321	$113.13	2
General Practice	249	244	$119.57	1
Psychiatry	245	242	$112.89	1
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine	215	201	$114.25	1
Pain Management	162	160	$122.39	1
Otolaryngology	124	118	$116.48	1
Diagnostic Radiology	57	57	$122.33	1

95939 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	8,559	$131.04	$95.81	70
Texas	7,215	$153.57	$123.88	52
Florida	4,632	$116.41	$90.43	27
New York	3,434	$124.09	$89.80	41
Colorado	2,479	$114.58	$89.93	16
Ohio	2,340	$108.87	$90.09	14
Nevada	1,686	$115.04	$90.04	6
Pennsylvania	1,684	$111.35	$89.81	20
Arizona	1,619	$110.94	$89.68	16
Maryland	1,593	$113.88	$90.08	21
North Carolina	1,462	$110.66	$89.80	10
Georgia	1,334	$111.95	$90.03	13
New Jersey	1,291	$116.56	$89.86	11
Illinois	1,159	$117.69	$89.76	27
Virginia	1,141	$114.53	$90.08	5
Louisiana	1,087	$105.10	$90.17	8
Connecticut	909	$119.14	$90.22	4
Utah	906	$118.20	$89.67	6
Minnesota	817	$114.05	$89.50	13
Tennessee	768	$119.29	$89.01	13
Massachusetts	757	$122.67	$90.29	6
Washington	646	$118.50	$89.77	10
Wisconsin	626	$109.60	$89.89	3
Kansas	617	$109.02	$90.35	4
Puerto Rico	531	$110.42	$90.20	1
Michigan	408	$111.11	$90.00	13
Oregon	273	$118.63	$90.45	5
Delaware	260	$113.65	$90.38	1
Alaska	253	$140.78	$90.27	1
South Carolina	230	$109.60	$90.29	3
Oklahoma	220	$103.18	$89.73	3
District of Columbia	214	$115.60	$90.25	2
Iowa	147	$107.88	$90.50	4
Missouri	125	$114.16	$89.84	2
Arkansas	108	$106.55	$89.45	1
Indiana	96	$108.78	$89.39	2
New Mexico	89	$110.32	$90.14	1
AE	82	$116.44	$90.25	1
Rhode Island	66	$122.85	$90.56	1
New Hampshire	51	$114.35	$90.41	2
Nebraska	46	$110.89	$90.88	1
Maine	15	$108.61	$89.96	1
Mississippi	12	$107.43	$90.56	1

Related codes

95911Nerve conduction$197.67
95910Nerve conduction$157.37
95938Placement of skin electrodes and measurement of stimulated sites on ar$55.24
95923Testing of autonomic (sympathetic) nervous system function$121.40
95909Nerve conduction$117.92
95992Repositioning exercises of head for treatment of dizziness$41.72
95913Nerve conduction$267.08
95912Nerve conduction$234.05
95921Testing of autonomic nervous system function and heart rate response t$87.65
95984Electronic analysis of implanted brain$41.14
95983Electronic analysis of implanted brain$46.17
95955Measurement of brain wave activity (eeg) outside the brain during surg$52.03

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.