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
$43
Average
$1.2k
Median
$769
High
$8.8k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
37 payers; the 90th percentile is 9.3× 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 | Aetna facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +7 other terms | 42 | $715 | $575 | $531 | 92% | — | $208 – $4.6k |
| 2 | UnitedHealthcare facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +7 other terms | 39 | $722 | $635 | $373 | 59% | — | $213 – $2.7k |
| 3 | MultiPlan facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +7 other terms | 30 | $859 | $1.0k | $813 | 80% | — | $511 – $5.0k |
| 4 | First Health facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +7 other terms | 27 | $1.0k | $757 | $287 | 38% | — | $343 – $1.7k |
| 5 | Cigna facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +6 other terms | 26 | $502 | $758 | $792 | 105% | — | $337 – $5.0k |
| 6 | Blue Cross Blue Shield facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +5 other terms | 21 | $307 | $344 | $157 | 46% | — | $187 – $995 |
| 7 | Humana facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +5 other terms | 14 | $1.0k | $988 | $181 | 18% | — | $326 – $1.2k |
| 8 | Baylor Scott White Health Plan facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 12 | $580 | $513 | $132 | 26% | — | $181 – $626 |
| 9 | Clover facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 10 | $281 | $281 | — | — | — | $281 – $281 |
| 10 | Ambetter facility · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +4 other terms | 9 | $639 | $639 | — | — | — | $639 – $639 |
← Hospitals reporting CPT 61000 · Snapshot 20261113T090226Z-3ce6c0b8