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
$103
Average
$1.2k
Median
$772
High
$6.3k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
22 payers; the 90th percentile is 3.3× 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 | Humana other · outpatient · +4 other terms | 69 | $820 | $987 | $392 | 40% | — | $572 – $1.9k |
| 2 | UnitedHealthcare other · outpatient · +3 other terms | 35 | $692 | $744 | $344 | 46% | — | $110 – $1.8k |
| 3 | Ambetter other · inpatient · +1 other terms | 31 | $1.1k | $1.1k | $175 | 17% | — | $848 – $1.3k |
| 4 | Aetna other · inpatient · +3 other terms | 25 | $679 | $857 | $252 | 29% | — | $667 – $1.4k |
| 5 | Blue Cross Blue Shield other · outpatient · +4 other terms | 22 | $692 | $720 | $168 | 23% | — | $397 – $1.3k |
| 6 | WellCare other · inpatient · +1 other terms | 20 | $695 | $697 | $18 | 3% | — | $671 – $744 |
| 7 | Tricare other · outpatient · +2 other terms | 19 | $634 | $562 | $164 | 29% | — | $249 – $722 |
| 8 | Molina other · inpatient · +3 other terms | 17 | $794 | $954 | $289 | 30% | — | $712 – $1.5k |
| 9 | Oscar other · outpatient · +2 other terms | 16 | $1.1k | $1.2k | $618 | 52% | — | $915 – $3.5k |
| 10 | Optum other · inpatient · +1 other terms | 10 | $661 | $664 | $14 | 2% | — | $654 – $706 |
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