CPT 61253
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 & explore
Low
$531
Average
$1.9k
Median
$1.3k
High
$8.6k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
48 payers; the 90th percentile is 4.0× 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 fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 208 | $3.0k | $4.4k | $6.2k | 139% | — | $156 – $36.8k |
| 2 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 178 | $6.8k | $10.8k | $8.4k | 77% | — | $0 – $35.3k |
| 3 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 147 | $1.8k | $5.2k | $5.9k | 113% | — | $79 – $33.6k |
| 4 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 112 | $3.0k | $5.6k | $5.3k | 95% | — | $0 – $20.7k |
| 5 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 101 | $981 | $2.8k | $2.5k | 86% | — | $853 – $8.7k |
| 6 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 87 | $1.2k | $2.7k | $2.6k | 97% | — | $839 – $12.1k |
| 7 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 37 | $962 | $1.0k | $270 | 27% | — | $839 – $2.0k |
| 8 | Molina professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 32 | $445 | $527 | $337 | 64% | — | $155 – $1.3k |
| 9 | Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 31 | $1.6k | $1.7k | $686 | 41% | — | $812 – $4.3k |
| 10 | WellCare fee schedule · both · +6 other terms | 26 | $859 | $1.0k | $328 | 33% | — | $661 – $1.8k |
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