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
$220
Average
$4.3k
Median
$2.2k
High
$23.9k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
20 payers; the 90th percentile is 17.1× 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 | Blue Cross Blue Shield percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +3 other terms | 6 | $34.9k | $29.8k | $11.2k | 38% | — | $4.7k – $34.9k |
| 2 | Humana professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 6 | $1.7k | $3.3k | $2.1k | 64% | — | $1.1k – $6.5k |
| 3 | Phcs percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 6 | $37.5k | $31.3k | $13.8k | 44% | — | $360 – $37.5k |
| 4 | Caresource percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 5 | $18.6k | $18.6k | — | — | — | $18.6k – $18.6k |
| 5 | Cigna professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +4 other terms | 5 | $1.2k | $3.0k | $2.5k | 84% | — | $867 – $6.7k |
| 6 | MultiPlan professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +3 other terms | 5 | $1.5k | $1.5k | $1.2k | 78% | — | $1 – $3.3k |
| 7 | Aetna percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +5 other terms | 4 | $2.3k | $2.3k | $187 | 8% | — | $2.0k – $2.5k |
| 8 | Molina percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 4 | $983 | $983 | — | — | — | $983 – $983 |
| 9 | UnitedHealthcare percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +5 other terms | 4 | $2.0k | $2.0k | $183 | 9% | — | $2.0k – $2.5k |
| 10 | Ambetter percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 2 | $220 | $220 | — | — | — | $220 – $220 |
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