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

Billing code `95816`. Prices for this code at 86 hospitals in GA, 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/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, 1 publish a physician fee; 34 publish a facility charge; 7 publish both, mixed together; 44 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $207 |
| Typical | $368 |
| 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 -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's Hospital | ATHENS | 1/5 | see split | $642 | $115 | $950 | $23 | $1,276 | 3,081 |
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE | 3/5 | $122 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,021 | $25 | $1,361 | 582 |
| Northside Hospital Duluth | DULUTH | 4/5 | $122 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,021 | $21 | $1,361 | 582 |
| Donalsonville Hospital | DONALSONVILLE | not rated | $140 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $234 | $140 | $140 | 1 |
| Effingham Health System | SPRINGFIELD | not rated | $193 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $447 | $184 | $654 | 26 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center Habersham | DEMOREST | 3/5 | $194 | $194 | not mentioned | $1,224 | $189 | $199 | 4 |
| St Francis Hospital- Emory Healthcare | COLUMBUS | 3/5 | $198 | $198 | not mentioned | not published | $70 | $473 | 10 |
| Phoebe Sumter Medical Center | AMERICUS | 3/5 | $199 | $199 | not mentioned | not published | $189 | $331 | 7 |
| AdventHealth Murray | CHATSWORTH | 5/5 | $207 | $207 | not mentioned | $2,616 | $201 | $398 | 5 |
| SGMC Health | VALDOSTA | 2/5 | $207 | $207 | not mentioned | $514 | $150 | $245 | 4 |
| Southern Regional Medical Center | RIVERDALE | 1/5 | $216 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $215 | $205 | $775 | 37 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center | GAINESVILLE | 3/5 | $218 | $218 | not mentioned | $1,224 | $212 | $223 | 4 |
| Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital | ALBANY | 2/5 | $218 | $218 | not mentioned | not published | $208 | $364 | 7 |
| Northside Hospital Forsyth | CUMMING | 4/5 | $219 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,021 | $54 | $1,361 | 231 |
| Northside Hospital Cherokee | CANTON | 4/5 | $219 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,021 | $54 | $1,361 | 233 |
| NGMC Barrow | WINDER | 4/5 | $222 | $222 | not mentioned | $1,224 | $217 | $227 | 4 |
| Tanner Medical Center - Carrollton | CARROLLTON | 2/5 | $222 | $222 | not mentioned | $447 | $216 | $237 | 10 |
| Northside Hospital | ATLANTA | 3/5 | $222 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,021 | $54 | $1,361 | 232 |
| Emory Decatur Hospital | DECATUR | 2/5 | $223 | $223 | not mentioned | $1,666 | $217 | $459 | 7 |
| Emory University Hospital | ATLANTA | 4/5 | $223 | $223 | not mentioned | $1,666 | $217 | $459 | 7 |
| Emory Hillandale Hospital | LITHONIA | 1/5 | $223 | $223 | not mentioned | $1,666 | $217 | $459 | 7 |
| AdventHealth Gordon | CALHOUN | 3/5 | $225 | $225 | not mentioned | $2,616 | $215 | $435 | 6 |
| Emory University Hospital Midtown | ATLANTA | 2/5 | $226 | $226 | not mentioned | $1,666 | $219 | $465 | 7 |
| Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta | ATLANTA | 3/5 | $226 | $226 | not mentioned | $1,666 | $219 | $465 | 7 |
| Emory Johns Creek Hospital | JOHNS CREEK | 4/5 | $226 | $226 | not mentioned | $1,666 | $219 | $465 | 7 |
| Putnam General Hospital | EATONTON | not rated | $226 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $224 | $125 | $380 | 13 |
| SGMC Berrien Campus | NASHVILLE | not rated | $226 | $226 | not mentioned | $514 | $188 | $282 | 3 |
| St Joseph's Hospital - Savannah | SAVANNAH | 2/5 | $232 | $232 | not mentioned | $449 | $189 | $514 | 8 |
| Candler Hospital | SAVANNAH | 2/5 | $232 | $232 | not mentioned | $449 | $189 | $514 | 8 |
| AdventHealth Redmond | ROME | 4/5 | $236 | $236 | not mentioned | $2,665 | $224 | $624 | 5 |
| Atrium Health Navicent Peach | BYRON | 1/5 | $239 | not mentioned | $239 | not published | $60 | $438 | 51 |
| Jeff Davis Hospital | HAZLEHURST | not rated | $244 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $248 | $120 | $547 | 19 |
| WellStar MCG Health, Affiliated with Med Col | AUGUSTA | 1/5 | $265 | $265 | not mentioned | $861 | $189 | $688 | 14 |
| Southwell Medical, a Campus of TRMC | ADEL | not rated | see split | $283 | $144 | $481 | $22 | $962 | 230 |
| Tift Regional Medical Center | TIFTON | 3/5 | see split | $290 | $393 | $481 | $28 | $962 | 138 |
| Atrium Health Navicent the Medical Center | MACON | 2/5 | see split | $718 | $208 | $579 | $52 | $1,107 | 90 |
| Navicent Health Baldwin | MILLEDGEVILLE | 2/5 | see split | $635 | $239 | $418 | $52 | $711 | 85 |
| Grady Memorial Hospital | ATLANTA | 2/5 | see split | $573 | $68 | $1,707 | $47 | $1,366 | 111 |
| Crisp Regional Hospital | CORDELE | 2/5 | $317 | $317 | not mentioned | $435 | $262 | $343 | 3 |
| Washington County Regional Medical Center | SANDERSVILLE | not rated | $330 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $430 | $189 | $713 | 25 |
| Coffee Regional Medical Center | DOUGLAS | 3/5 | see split | $304 | $368 | $1,250 | $115 | $1,746 | 296 |
| Union General Hospital | BLAIRSVILLE | 3/5 | $359 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $426 | $119 | $723 | 18 |
| Colquitt Regional Medical Center | MOULTRIE | 4/5 | $364 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $854 | $49 | $854 | 72 |
| WellStar West Georgia Medical Center | LAGRANGE | 5/5 | $368 | $368 | not mentioned | $861 | $212 | $827 | 10 |
| WellStar Spalding Medical Center | GRIFFIN | 2/5 | $375 | $375 | not mentioned | $861 | $217 | $825 | 10 |
| WellStar Douglas Medical Center | DOUGLASVILLE | 3/5 | $383 | $383 | not mentioned | $861 | $217 | $825 | 9 |
| WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center | MARIETTA | 4/5 | $386 | $386 | not mentioned | $861 | $219 | $823 | 9 |
| WellStar North Fulton Medical Center | ROSWELL | 2/5 | $386 | $386 | not mentioned | $861 | $219 | $836 | 9 |
| WellStar Paulding Medical Center | HIRAM | 4/5 | $386 | $386 | not mentioned | $861 | $219 | $823 | 9 |
| WellStar Cobb Medical Center | AUSTELL | 3/5 | $386 | $386 | not mentioned | $861 | $219 | $855 | 9 |
| Chatuge Regional Hospital | HIAWASSEE | not rated | $450 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $426 | $187 | $723 | 18 |
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center | ROME | 2/5 | $455 | $455 | not mentioned | $546 | $184 | $927 | 38 |
| Southeast Georgia Health System- Brunswick Campus | BRUNSWICK | 2/5 | $465 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $47 | $674 | 32 |
| Southeast Georgia Health System -- Camden Campus | SAINT MARYS | 4/5 | $465 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $47 | $674 | 32 |
| Memorial Health University Medical Center | SAVANNAH | 1/5 | $491 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,593 | $233 | $1,434 | 28 |
| Blue Ridge Medical Center | BLUE RIDGE | not rated | $525 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,575 | $40 | $2,625 | 390 |
| Candler County Hospital | METTER | not rated | $534 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $187 | $749 | 16 |
| Chi Memorial Hospital- Georgia | RINGGOLD | 3/5 | $579 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $464 | $235 | $1,268 | 24 |
| University Mcduffie County Regional Medical Center | THOMSON | not rated | $616 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $441 | $237 | $1,471 | 18 |
| Piedmont Augusta Hospital | AUGUSTA | 2/5 | $647 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $441 | $238 | $1,471 | 21 |
| Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica | VILLA RICA | 3/5 | $671 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $671 | $243 | $1,040 | 17 |
| East Georgia Regional Medical Center | STATESBORO | 3/5 | $686 | $686 | not mentioned | $890 | $148 | $2,161 | 49 |
| Memorial Satilla Health | WAYCROSS | 3/5 | $731 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,538 | $289 | $2,284 | 27 |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite | ATLANTA | not rated | $777 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,133 | $474 | $1,133 | 28 |
| Athur M Blank Hospital | ATLANTA | not rated | $777 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,133 | $484 | $1,133 | 28 |
| Memorial Health Meadows Hospital | VIDALIA | 5/5 | $791 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $783 | $799 | 2 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Northside | COLUMBUS | 5/5 | $1,000 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $441 | $171 | $1,471 | 16 |
| WellStar Sylvan Grove Medical Center | JACKSON | not rated | $1,004 | $1,004 | not mentioned | $861 | $886 | $1,122 | 2 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown | COLUMBUS | 2/5 | $1,029 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $441 | $213 | $1,471 | 17 |
| Ty Cobb Regional Medical Center | LAVONIA | 3/5 | $1,040 | $1,040 | not mentioned | $654 | $179 | $1,040 | 107 |
| Doctors Hospital | AUGUSTA | 3/5 | $1,254 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $4,528 | $571 | $4,076 | 35 |
| Piedmont Eastside Medical Center | SNELLVILLE | 2/5 | $1,297 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $572 | $372 | $1,799 | 15 |
| Piedmont Cartersville Medical Center | CARTERSVILLE | 3/5 | $1,297 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $572 | $225 | $1,799 | 16 |
| Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center | ATHENS | 4/5 | $1,316 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $572 | $203 | $1,799 | 16 |
| Coliseum Medical Centers | MACON | 3/5 | $1,316 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $572 | $130 | $1,799 | 14 |
| Piedmont Macon North Hospital | MACON | 4/5 | $1,316 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $572 | $175 | $1,799 | 14 |
| Piedmont Rockdale Hospital | CONYERS | 3/5 | $1,316 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $572 | $230 | $1,799 | 16 |
| Piedmont Mountainside Hospital | JASPER | 4/5 | $1,335 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $572 | $207 | $1,799 | 15 |
| Piedmont Fayette Hospital | FAYETTEVILLE | 3/5 | $1,335 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $572 | $176 | $1,799 | 16 |
| Piedmont Walton Hospital | MONROE | 4/5 | $1,335 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $572 | $171 | $1,799 | 15 |
| Piedmont Newnan Hospital | NEWNAN | 4/5 | $1,335 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $572 | $180 | $1,799 | 16 |
| Piedmont Hospital | ATLANTA | 4/5 | $1,335 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $572 | $218 | $1,799 | 16 |
| Piedmont Henry Hospital | STOCKBRIDGE | 2/5 | $1,335 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $572 | $162 | $1,799 | 16 |
| Piedmont Newton Hospital | COVINGTON | 3/5 | $1,392 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $572 | $186 | $1,799 | 15 |
| Fairview Park Hospital | DUBLIN | 4/5 | $1,407 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $4,091 | $548 | $3,682 | 41 |
| Clinch Memorial Hospital | HOMERVILLE | not rated | $1,425 | $1,425 | not mentioned | $750 | $1,200 | $1,500 | 40 |

## 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 24 of the 78 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 54 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.

5 of these 86 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: Donalsonville Hospital, Jeff Davis Hospital, Southeast Georgia Health System- Brunswick Campus, Southeast Georgia Health System -- Camden Campus, 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.