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
Craniectomy W/Excision Tumor/Lesion Skull
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Based on 109–1,090 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$11
Average
$7.8k
Median
$5.7k
High
$95.5k
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| 1 | Seattle Children's Hospital Seattle, WA | $3.1k | $3.2k | $2.7k | 85% | 262–280 | $749 – $24.3k |
| 2 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $11.3k | $10.9k | $5.8k | 53% | 37–370 | $2.2k – $17.7k |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $22.9k | $27.0k | $15.7k | 58% | 32–320 | $4.1k – $45.9k |
| 4 | Mayo Clinic Arizona Phoenix, AZ | $9.2k | $9.0k | $2.3k | 26% | 4–40 | $580 – $13.7k |
| 5 | St Luke's Regional Medical Center, LTD Boise, ID | $7.6k | $6.3k | $2.8k | 45% | 3–30 | $1.1k – $14.4k |
| 6 | Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church, VA | $7.5k | $9.9k | $5.7k | 57% | 3–30 | $4.4k – $25.6k |
| 7 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $15.5k | $14.0k | $4.3k | 31% | 2–20 | $440 – $26.4k |
| 8 | Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Woodland Hills WOODLAND HILLS, CA | $3.2k | $3.2k | $1.3k | 41% | 2–20 | $1.9k – $4.6k |
| 9 | Inova Loudoun Hospital Leesburg, VA | $7.5k | $9.4k | $4.7k | 50% | 2–20 | $4.4k – $19.2k |
| 10 | Oregon Health & Science University PORTLAND, OR | $11.2k | $11.2k | $3.7k | 33% | 2–20 | $7.5k – $14.9k |
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