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
$994
Average
$11.2k
Median
$10.1k
High
$35k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
22 payers; the 90th percentile is 2.5× 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 | Aetna professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +6 other terms | 12 | $9.6k | $10.7k | $2.5k | 23% | — | $5.8k – $15.7k |
| 2 | Medica professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 9 | $9.7k | $10.4k | $3.4k | 33% | — | $3.7k – $19.6k |
| 3 | UnitedHealthcare professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +6 other terms | 9 | $9.3k | $10.2k | $2.5k | 24% | — | $3.5k – $15.1k |
| 4 | Blue Cross Blue Shield professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +3 other terms | 8 | $15.8k | $14.1k | $5.5k | 39% | — | $3.0k – $19.8k |
| 5 | First Health professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +3 other terms | 8 | $9.6k | $11.3k | $3.2k | 28% | — | $6.6k – $16.1k |
| 6 | Optum professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 8 | $18.8k | $13.9k | $4.9k | 35% | — | $5.7k – $18.8k |
| 7 | Anthem professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 7 | $19.2k | $16.3k | $5.1k | 32% | — | $6.2k – $19.2k |
| 8 | Cigna professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +4 other terms | 7 | $3.3k | $4.5k | $2.8k | 63% | — | $1.9k – $10.0k |
| 9 | Medcost professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 7 | $9.8k | $11.4k | $2.4k | 21% | — | $9.6k – $15.7k |
| 10 | Medical Mutual professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 7 | $13.0k | $13.4k | $4.1k | 30% | — | $9.6k – $19.6k |
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