CPT 61321
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
Open skull for drainage
Low
$428
Average
$3.0k
Median
$2.3k
High
$14.7k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
50 payers; the 90th percentile is 3.3× 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 | 209 | $3k | $4.9k | $5.9k | 122% | — | $290 – $36.8k |
| 2 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 178 | $13.0k | $21.6k | $16.5k | 76% | — | $0 – $75.4k |
| 3 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 148 | $2.6k | $6.2k | $7.4k | 119% | — | $79 – $62.5k |
| 4 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 112 | $3.4k | $5.8k | $5.2k | 89% | — | $0 – $20.7k |
| 5 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 101 | $2.1k | $5.3k | $4.6k | 87% | — | $1.8k – $15.1k |
| 6 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 87 | $2.5k | $6.0k | $6.4k | 106% | — | $1.4k – $28.3k |
| 7 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 37 | $2.0k | $1.9k | $424 | 23% | — | $1.4k – $3.2k |
| 8 | Molina professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 35 | $949 | $1.1k | $714 | 64% | — | $133 – $2.8k |
| 9 | Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 31 | $3.4k | $3.5k | $1.5k | 41% | — | $1.7k – $9.2k |
| 10 | WellCare fee schedule · both · +6 other terms | 26 | $1.8k | $2.2k | $672 | 31% | — | $1.5k – $3.9k |
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