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Fitting of a Skin-Surface Nerve Stimulator (TENS)

Minnesota rates for HCPCS 64550

This covers the fitting and application of a device that delivers mild electrical pulses through electrodes placed on the skin to help manage pain, commonly known as a TENS unit. A clinician positions the electrodes over the appropriate area and sets up the device for the patient's use. This is a non-surgical way to help control pain using electrical stimulation rather than medication.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Fitting of a Skin-Surface Nerve Stimulator (TENS) cost?

$38.02

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $38.02 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $34.67 from a physician practice, and about $61.66 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 3 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$34.67$23.44 to $50.12
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$61.66$47.86 to $132

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $62 · 10th to 90th $47 to $132Professionalmedian $35 · 10th to 90th $19 to $68
$20$50$100facility $62professional $35

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$165.96
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$36.31
Typical High
$70.79
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$131.83
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$63.10
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$89.13
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$489.78

Where Minnesota sits

The same service costs 2818.4 times more in Kentucky than in Florida. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Minnesota· 22nd of 38

$38.02

KY $44,668FL $15.85

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.