Billing code 95909: Nerve conductionMedicare rate & RVUs

Medicare pays $141.95 for 95909 nationally in the office. Local office rates run $128.01–$186.39.

Medicare allowed amount for participating (non-QP) physicians, before deductible, coinsurance and claim adjustments. Not a patient’s bill or a hospital charge.

What 95909 covers

Nerve conduction testing measures how electrical signals travel through peripheral nerves. A clinician stimulates selected nerves and records responses with electrodes to assess findings such as slowed conduction or reduced response amplitude. Neurologists and physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians commonly perform or interpret these studies in office and hospital settings when evaluating suspected polyneuropathy, entrapment neuropathy, or nerve injury. This code represents a study count of five or six; it is not selected by the number of diagnoses or limbs alone.

Select the code from the number of qualifying nerve conduction studies performed and documented for the encounter. The record should identify the nerves and study components tested and support the reported count and clinical purpose. Needle electromyography may be performed and reported separately when indicated and documented. Medicare recognizes professional and technical components: modifier 26 identifies the interpretation, modifier TC identifies equipment and staff, and billing without either modifier represents the global service. The professional and technical portions may be separately priced when reported with those modifiers.

This summary was written with AI assistance from CMS physician fee schedule data and checked against the CMS billing rules shown here. Rates on this page come directly from CMS files.

Where 95909 pays more and less

The same RVUs, adjusted for each area’s costs. Open a locality for its calculation, history and nearby areas.

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95909 rates by state

Office rate range in each state. Select a state to see its payment localities.

How the 95909 rate is calculated

Each of 95909’s three RVUs is multiplied by a geographic index (GPCI) for the payment locality, added up, and multiplied by the conversion factor. Drag the indexes or enter a ZIP to see what moves the rate.

Payment rules and modifiers for 95909

The CMS indicators that decide how 95909 is paid alongside other services.

What modifiers do to the payment

When to use modifier 26

95909 compared with similar codes

How to choose

95908Nerve conduction

Use 95908 for three or four qualifying nerve conduction studies; use 95909 when the documented count is five or six.

95910Nerve conduction study

95910 represents seven or eight studies. Do not select it for a five- or six-study encounter.

95905Nerve conduction test

95905 describes automated nerve conduction testing, a different testing method. 95909 is selected by the count of qualifying studies.

Codes related to 95909

Related codes aren’t interchangeable: bill the code that matches the service performed.

Where these rates come from

FeeBase calculates base physician payments from CMS work, practice-expense and malpractice RVUs, adjusted by each locality’s geographic indexes and the conversion factor. Services without a published rate are labeled, never given a made-up amount. Amounts are Medicare allowed amounts before claim adjustments: not a patient’s bill or a commercial rate.

CMS RVU26D · effective Oct 1, 2026 through the day before Jan 1, 2027

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