CPT 61522
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
Removal of brain abscess
Low
$1.2k
Average
$3.5k
Median
$2.8k
High
$17.2k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
50 payers; the 90th percentile is 3.5× 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 | UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 204 | $3.0k | $4.9k | $6.0k | 122% | — | $290 – $36.8k |
| 2 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 178 | $13.2k | $22.0k | $16.8k | 76% | — | $0 – $77.0k |
| 3 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 142 | $2.6k | $6.4k | $7.7k | 120% | — | $79 – $64.4k |
| 4 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 111 | $3.5k | $5.8k | $5.2k | 88% | — | $0 – $20.7k |
| 5 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 96 | $2.1k | $5.4k | $4.8k | 88% | — | $1.8k – $15.5k |
| 6 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 83 | $2.6k | $5.8k | $5.8k | 101% | — | $1.8k – $27.3k |
| 7 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 37 | $2.1k | $2.2k | $525 | 24% | — | $1.8k – $4.4k |
| 8 | Molina professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 35 | $977 | $1.2k | $734 | 63% | — | $340 – $2.9k |
| 9 | Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 31 | $3.5k | $3.6k | $1.5k | 41% | — | $1.8k – $9.4k |
| 10 | WellCare fee schedule · both · +6 other terms | 26 | $1.9k | $2.2k | $685 | 31% | — | $1.6k – $4.0k |
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