# Brain wave test (EEG), awake and drowsy in Atlanta, GA

Billing code `95816`. Prices for this code at 26 hospitals within 35 miles of Atlanta, taken from the machine-readable standard charge files each hospital is required to publish under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50).

Source page: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/atlanta/brain-wave-test-eeg-awake-and-drowsy

HC EEG,W/AWAKE & DROWSY RECORD - EEG AWAKE OR DROWSY PORTABLE

## Before quoting any figure below

- **Hospital charges only.** The surgeon, anaesthetist, radiologist and pathologist bill separately and appear in no hospital price file, by construction. Every figure below is part of a total, never the total.
- **A negotiated rate is not a bill.** It is what a hospital and an insurer agreed. What a patient owes depends on their deductible, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum.
- **Each hospital's figure is a median across its own plans.** The spread inside one hospital is often wider than the gap between two of them.
- **"not mentioned" is not $0.** It means this hospital's file does not label a row that way. Silence is not a statement that the charge does not exist.
- **A hospital absent from the table says nothing about its prices.** It may publish this code under a revenue or drug code this site cannot map to a procedure.

A procedure code is billed twice -- once by the hospital for its own costs, once by the doctor for their work -- and hospitals publish different sides of that split under the same code. Of the hospitals here, 11 publish a facility charge; 1 publish both, mixed together; 14 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $217 |
| Typical | $383 |
| Dearest tenth | $1,326 |

The cheapest and dearest tenth are the hospitals a tenth of the way in from each end, not the single cheapest and dearest. Every hospital, including both extremes, is in the table below.

That is a 6-fold difference for the same billing code, between hospitals within 35 miles of each other -- a gap between hospitals, not between treatments.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northside Hospital Duluth | DULUTH (15.5 mi) | 4/5 | $122 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,021 | $21 | $1,361 | 582 |
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE (25.8 mi) | 3/5 | $122 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,021 | $25 | $1,361 | 582 |
| Southern Regional Medical Center | RIVERDALE (19.7 mi) | 1/5 | $216 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $215 | $205 | $775 | 37 |
| Northside Hospital Forsyth | CUMMING (29.4 mi) | 4/5 | $219 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,021 | $54 | $1,361 | 231 |
| Northside Hospital Cherokee | CANTON (25.4 mi) | 4/5 | $219 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,021 | $54 | $1,361 | 233 |
| Northside Hospital | ATLANTA (3.2 mi) | 3/5 | $222 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,021 | $54 | $1,361 | 232 |
| Emory Hillandale Hospital | LITHONIA (16.0 mi) | 1/5 | $223 | $223 | not mentioned | $1,666 | $217 | $459 | 7 |
| Emory Decatur Hospital | DECATUR (4.8 mi) | 2/5 | $223 | $223 | not mentioned | $1,666 | $217 | $459 | 7 |
| Emory University Hospital | ATLANTA (3.6 mi) | 4/5 | $223 | $223 | not mentioned | $1,666 | $217 | $459 | 7 |
| Emory University Hospital Midtown | ATLANTA (4.7 mi) | 2/5 | $226 | $226 | not mentioned | $1,666 | $219 | $465 | 7 |
| Emory Johns Creek Hospital | JOHNS CREEK (17.9 mi) | 4/5 | $226 | $226 | not mentioned | $1,666 | $219 | $465 | 7 |
| Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta | ATLANTA (3.2 mi) | 3/5 | $226 | $226 | not mentioned | $1,666 | $219 | $465 | 7 |
| Grady Memorial Hospital | ATLANTA (6.1 mi) | 2/5 | see split | $573 | $68 | $1,707 | $47 | $1,366 | 111 |
| WellStar Douglas Medical Center | DOUGLASVILLE (24.5 mi) | 3/5 | $383 | $383 | not mentioned | $861 | $217 | $825 | 9 |
| WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center | MARIETTA (12.1 mi) | 4/5 | $386 | $386 | not mentioned | $861 | $219 | $823 | 9 |
| WellStar North Fulton Medical Center | ROSWELL (13.5 mi) | 2/5 | $386 | $386 | not mentioned | $861 | $219 | $836 | 9 |
| WellStar Paulding Medical Center | HIRAM (23.5 mi) | 4/5 | $386 | $386 | not mentioned | $861 | $219 | $823 | 9 |
| WellStar Cobb Medical Center | AUSTELL (15.4 mi) | 3/5 | $386 | $386 | not mentioned | $861 | $219 | $855 | 9 |
| Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica | VILLA RICA (33.1 mi) | 3/5 | $671 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $671 | $243 | $1,040 | 17 |
| Athur M Blank Hospital | ATLANTA (2.3 mi) | not rated | $777 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,133 | $484 | $1,133 | 28 |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite | ATLANTA (3.2 mi) | not rated | $777 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,133 | $474 | $1,133 | 28 |
| Piedmont Eastside Medical Center | SNELLVILLE (19.7 mi) | 2/5 | $1,297 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $572 | $372 | $1,799 | 15 |
| Piedmont Rockdale Hospital | CONYERS (22.2 mi) | 3/5 | $1,316 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $572 | $230 | $1,799 | 16 |
| Piedmont Fayette Hospital | FAYETTEVILLE (25.0 mi) | 3/5 | $1,335 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $572 | $176 | $1,799 | 16 |
| Piedmont Henry Hospital | STOCKBRIDGE (21.0 mi) | 2/5 | $1,335 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $572 | $162 | $1,799 | 16 |
| Piedmont Hospital | ATLANTA (3.0 mi) | 4/5 | $1,335 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $572 | $218 | $1,799 | 16 |

## Self-pay

Self-pay is what the hospital charges someone paying themselves rather than through insurance. Paying self-pay usually does not count toward a deductible, so it can cost less for one service and more across a year. Every other figure here is what an insurer pays, not what a patient would.

At 6 of the 26 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 20 it is higher.

## The doctor's side, roughly

Nationally, Medicare allows about $56 for the clinician who performs or reads this service, across 2,633 billing providers in 2024. That is a separate bill from everything above and is NOT added to any figure on this page -- it is here to show the rough size of what a hospital price leaves out.

1 of these 26 hospitals have not published an updated price file in over a year, or do not say when they last did. Hospitals are required to update at least annually, so those figures may not reflect what they charge now: Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica.

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Compiled by Clearcharge (clearcharge.org) from each hospital's machine-readable standard-charge file. When quoting a figure, cite the source page above. The hospital files behind these figures state data through dates from 2024-07-01 to 2026-07-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.