CPT 61538
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 tissue
Low
$1.4k
Average
$4.1k
Median
$3.3k
High
$21.0k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
49 payers; the 90th percentile is 3.6× 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 | 217 | $3.0k | $4.9k | $5.8k | 117% | — | $290 – $36.8k |
| 2 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 178 | $13.3k | $26.6k | $21.0k | 79% | — | $0 – $95.7k |
| 3 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 147 | $2.8k | $6.8k | $8.5k | 124% | — | $79 – $78.3k |
| 4 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 112 | $3.6k | $5.9k | $5.1k | 86% | — | $0 – $20.7k |
| 5 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 101 | $2.6k | $6.4k | $5.8k | 90% | — | $2.2k – $19.0k |
| 6 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 87 | $2.6k | $7.0k | $7.4k | 105% | — | $1.7k – $31.9k |
| 7 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 37 | $2.5k | $2.3k | $532 | 23% | — | $1.7k – $4.0k |
| 8 | Molina professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 34 | $1.2k | $1.4k | $890 | 63% | — | $413 – $3.5k |
| 9 | Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 31 | $4.4k | $4.5k | $1.9k | 41% | — | $2.2k – $11.7k |
| 10 | WellCare fee schedule · both · +6 other terms | 26 | $2.2k | $2.7k | $853 | 32% | — | $1.8k – $4.8k |
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