CPT 61480
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
Incise skull for surgery
Low
$1
Average
$6.5k
Median
$3.8k
High
$45.7k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
27 payers; the 90th percentile is 9.2× 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 | Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient | 50 | $5.8k | $8.3k | $5.2k | 63% | — | $2.1k – $14.6k |
| 2 | Oscar case rate · outpatient · +4 other terms | 45 | $3.6k | $4.5k | $1.4k | 31% | — | $3.3k – $6.6k |
| 3 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms | 38 | $7.5k | $7.8k | $6.0k | 77% | — | $1.3k – $33.6k |
| 4 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms | 34 | $13.8k | $16.0k | $3.5k | 22% | — | $5.0k – $18.8k |
| 5 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms | 26 | $4.2k | $4.3k | $3.5k | 80% | — | $0 – $20.7k |
| 6 | Anthem fee schedule · both · +4 other terms | 17 | $1.1k | $1.1k | — | — | — | $1.1k – $1.1k |
| 7 | Wellmark fee schedule · both · +2 other terms | 13 | $3.7k | $3.6k | $351 | 10% | — | $3.4k – $4.2k |
| 8 | Blue Cross Blue Shield case rate · outpatient · +11 other terms | 10 | $4.5k | $9.9k | $11.8k | 119% | — | $3.9k – $40.3k |
| 9 | Highmark fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 10 | $1.5k | $1.5k | $45 | 3% | — | $1.4k – $1.5k |
| 10 | Kaiser case rate · outpatient · +3 other terms | 7 | $2.6k | $2.6k | $387 | 15% | — | $1.9k – $3.1k |
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