CPT 61050
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 brain canal fluid
Low
$166
Average
$667
Median
$450
High
$2.3k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
31 payers; the 90th percentile is 4.8× 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 · +5 other terms | 73 | $327 | $550 | $298 | 54% | — | $187 – $989 |
| 2 | UnitedHealthcare other · outpatient · +5 other terms | 42 | $299 | $327 | $136 | 42% | — | $84 – $764 |
| 3 | Ambetter other · inpatient · +2 other terms | 31 | $464 | $450 | $75 | 17% | — | $362 – $563 |
| 4 | Aetna other · outpatient · +5 other terms | 30 | $300 | $365 | $111 | 30% | — | $187 – $607 |
| 5 | Blue Cross Blue Shield other · outpatient · +4 other terms | 27 | $295 | $335 | $118 | 35% | — | $187 – $753 |
| 6 | WellCare other · outpatient · +3 other terms | 22 | $296 | $296 | $8 | 3% | — | $285 – $317 |
| 7 | Molina other · outpatient · +2 other terms | 20 | $447 | $396 | $156 | 39% | — | $156 – $632 |
| 8 | Tricare other · outpatient · +2 other terms | 20 | $270 | $241 | $69 | 28% | — | $106 – $308 |
| 9 | Oscar other · outpatient · +3 other terms | 17 | $474 | $633 | $732 | 116% | — | $390 – $3.5k |
| 10 | Optum other · inpatient · +3 other terms | 10 | $282 | $283 | $6 | 2% | — | $279 – $301 |
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