CPT 61001
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
$136
Average
$1.0k
Median
$735
High
$7.4k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
61 payers; the 90th percentile is 5.5× 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 fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms | 496 | $694 | $1.2k | $1.7k | 137% | — | $24 – $20.4k |
| 2 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms | 464 | $767 | $1.6k | $2.1k | 133% | — | $79 – $21.3k |
| 3 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms | 358 | $685 | $730 | $807 | 111% | — | $1 – $12.8k |
| 4 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms | 340 | $1.3k | $2.2k | $2.1k | 96% | — | $1 – $18.0k |
| 5 | Cigna case rate · outpatient · +17 other terms | 307 | $3.0k | $4.9k | $6.8k | 137% | — | $650 – $40.7k |
| 6 | Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms | 216 | $512 | $462 | $339 | 73% | — | $1 – $1.9k |
| 7 | WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms | 166 | $698 | $813 | $545 | 67% | — | $123 – $4.3k |
| 8 | Oscar case rate · outpatient · +11 other terms | 130 | $3.0k | $2.5k | $1.1k | 43% | — | $1.1k – $7.5k |
| 9 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms | 125 | $653 | $682 | $978 | 143% | — | $68 – $6.3k |
| 10 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms | 94 | $978 | $1.2k | $1.0k | 84% | — | $68 – $5.1k |
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