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
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Low
$199
Average
$1.5k
Median
$365
High
$9.8k
Showing only prices reported under the per diem methodology. Choose another in the filter below to change the chart. 39 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 27.1× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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Reflects a negotiated per diem rate paid per day of care.
| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deaconess Hospital, Inc Newburgh, IN | $291 | $291 | — | — | — | $291 – $291 |
| 2 | Methodist Hospital Hill Country Fredericksburg, TX | $365 | $365 | — | — | — | $365 – $365 |
| 3 | Sauk Prairie Healthcare Prairie du Sac, WI | $5.9k | $5.9k | — | — | — | $5.9k – $5.9k |
| 4 | University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC | $5.5k | $5.5k | $1.1k | 19% | — | $4.5k – $6.6k |
| 5 | Tristar Centennial Medical Center SPRING HILL, TN | $805 | $846 | $105 | 12% | — | $743 – $990 |
| 6 | Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Chicago, IL | $2.7k | $2.4k | $1.1k | 48% | — | $900 – $3.7k |
| 7 | Tristar Southern Hills Medical Center ANTIOCH, TN | $921 | $921 | $57 | 6% | — | $850 – $990 |
| 8 | Allina Health Systems Shakopee, MN | $199 | $199 | — | — | — | $199 – $199 |
| 9 | Tristar Skyline Medical Center NASHVILLE, TN | $778 | $829 | $117 | 14% | — | $718 – $990 |
| 10 | Methodist Specialty And Transplant SAN ANTONIO, TX | $365 | $365 | — | — | — | $365 – $365 |
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