CPT 61000
Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.
Original text from hospital filings
Remove cranial cavity fluid
Low
$109
Average
$1.7k
Median
$993
High
$17.0k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
44 payers; the 90th percentile is 7.2× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many payers fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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| 1 | UnitedHealthcare case rate · outpatient · +3 other terms | 424 | $2.1k | $2.2k | $1.6k | 70% | — | $1 – $12.2k |
| 2 | Cigna case rate · outpatient · +2 other terms | 307 | $3.0k | $4.9k | $6.8k | 137% | — | $650 – $40.7k |
| 3 | Aetna case rate · outpatient · +3 other terms | 289 | $2.1k | $2.7k | $1.5k | 55% | — | $442 – $16.8k |
| 4 | Blue Cross Blue Shield case rate · outpatient · +2 other terms | 147 | $2.7k | $2.2k | $2.1k | 97% | — | $5 – $16.3k |
| 5 | Oscar case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms | 130 | $3.0k | $2.5k | $1.1k | 43% | — | $1.1k – $7.5k |
| 6 | Molina case rate · outpatient · +4 other terms | 121 | $1.8k | $2.1k | $896 | 43% | — | $264 – $3.2k |
| 7 | Humana case rate · outpatient · +3 other terms | 111 | $1.1k | $2.5k | $1.4k | 57% | — | $326 – $5.8k |
| 8 | Anthem case rate · outpatient · +3 other terms | 108 | $2.6k | $3.1k | $1.7k | 54% | — | $586 – $10.8k |
| 9 | Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient | 76 | $2.2k | $1.9k | $566 | 30% | — | $1.2k – $3.4k |
| 10 | Kaiser case rate · both · +2 other terms | 43 | $1.2k | $1.3k | $752 | 58% | — | $86 – $2.6k |
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