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Fine-Wire Muscle Recording During Walking

New Jersey rates for HCPCS 96003

A recording of the electrical activity of a single muscle while the patient walks or performs other movements, made through a very fine wire placed into that muscle. Because the wire sits inside the muscle it can record from deep muscles that surface electrodes cannot reach. It forms part of a walking analysis used to plan treatment for a movement problem.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Fine-Wire Muscle Recording During Walking cost?

$18.62

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $18.62 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $15.85 to $19.05.

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.

How much rates vary

Professionalmedian $19 · 10th to 90th $13 to $31
$10$20$50professional $19

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$28.84
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$36.31
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$19.05
Typical High
$38.02
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$15.14
Typical High
$29.51
1 more rate with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$30.20

Where New Jersey sits

The same service costs 9.8 times more in Texas 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.

New Jersey· 44th of 51

$18.62

TX $174FL $17.78

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.