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
$1.0k
Average
$10.4k
Median
$11.1k
High
$24.7k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
25 payers; the 90th percentile is 5.8× 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 · +7 other terms | 8 | $9.8k | $12.1k | $4.4k | 36% | — | $5.7k – $22.1k |
| 2 | Cigna professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +3 other terms | 7 | $12.6k | $13.2k | $2.4k | 18% | — | $8.4k – $21.6k |
| 3 | Blue Cross Blue Shield percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 6 | $34.9k | $30.5k | $9.7k | 32% | — | $8.9k – $34.9k |
| 4 | Humana professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 6 | $3.9k | $11.2k | $8.5k | 77% | — | $3.3k – $23.9k |
| 5 | Caresource percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 5 | $18.6k | $18.6k | — | — | — | $18.6k – $18.6k |
| 6 | MultiPlan professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +4 other terms | 5 | $4.0k | $4.1k | $3.3k | 80% | — | $1 – $9.1k |
| 7 | Phcs percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 5 | $37.5k | $37.5k | — | — | — | $37.5k – $37.5k |
| 8 | Molina percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges | 4 | $2.4k | $2.4k | — | — | — | $2.4k – $2.4k |
| 9 | UnitedHealthcare percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +7 other terms | 4 | $5.1k | $5.1k | $455 | 9% | — | $4.9k – $6.1k |
| 10 | First Health professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +3 other terms | 3 | $17.5k | $17.3k | $8.3k | 48% | — | $7.0k – $27.4k |
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