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
$51
Average
$1.9k
Median
$755
High
$15.5k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
30 payers; the 90th percentile is 15.4× 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 facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +7 other terms | 19 | $722 | $695 | $179 | 26% | — | $213 – $977 |
| 2 | Aetna facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +7 other terms | 18 | $805 | $805 | $206 | 26% | — | $297 – $1.4k |
| 3 | First Health facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +7 other terms | 17 | $1.0k | $1.0k | $244 | 24% | — | $323 – $1.7k |
| 4 | Humana facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +5 other terms | 16 | $1.0k | $970 | $180 | 19% | — | $307 – $1.2k |
| 5 | Baylor Scott White Health Plan facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 12 | $580 | $513 | $132 | 26% | — | $181 – $626 |
| 6 | Blue Cross Blue Shield percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +4 other terms | 8 | $34.9k | $19.5k | $17.1k | 88% | — | $18 – $34.9k |
| 7 | Cigna percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +6 other terms | 8 | $2.4k | $2.0k | $987 | 50% | — | $300 – $2.9k |
| 8 | MultiPlan percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +7 other terms | 6 | $3.6k | $3.5k | $296 | 9% | — | $2.8k – $3.6k |
| 9 | Caresource percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 5 | $18.6k | $18.6k | — | — | — | $18.6k – $18.6k |
| 10 | Oscar percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 5 | $605 | $629 | $41 | 7% | — | $605 – $700 |
← Hospitals reporting CPT 61001 · Snapshot 20261113T090226Z-3ce6c0b8