CPT 61156
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
Pierce skull for drainage
Low
$220
Average
$5.6k
Median
$5.3k
High
$24.1k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
29 payers; the 90th percentile is 3.6× 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 | Cigna facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +5 other terms | 17 | $6.9k | $4.0k | $3.2k | 82% | — | $262 – $8.5k |
| 2 | UnitedHealthcare facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +7 other terms | 17 | $3.2k | $3.5k | $2.7k | 79% | — | $210 – $6.7k |
| 3 | Aetna percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +7 other terms | 13 | $7.4k | $7.1k | $2.2k | 30% | — | $1.1k – $9.3k |
| 4 | First Health percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +6 other terms | 10 | $9.7k | $9.2k | $735 | 8% | — | $8.1k – $10.0k |
| 5 | Blue Cross Blue Shield percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +5 other terms | 9 | $34.9k | $18.9k | $13.5k | 72% | — | $5.1k – $34.9k |
| 6 | Healthpartners facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 9 | $5.5k | $5.4k | $373 | 7% | — | $5.0k – $5.9k |
| 7 | MultiPlan percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +4 other terms | 7 | $10.0k | $8.5k | $2.4k | 29% | — | $3.7k – $10.0k |
| 8 | Humana professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +3 other terms | 6 | $2.3k | $3.9k | $2.2k | 56% | — | $1.9k – $7.7k |
| 9 | Phcs percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +4 other terms | 6 | $37.5k | $31.3k | $13.8k | 44% | — | $360 – $37.5k |
| 10 | Bcbs Id percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 5 | $8.4k | $8.5k | $98 | 1% | — | $8.4k – $8.6k |
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