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
$1.2k
Average
$13.8k
Median
$14.2k
High
$35k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
26 payers; the 90th percentile is 3.7× 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 · +5 other terms | 8 | $13.8k | $15.6k | $4.2k | 27% | — | $7.8k – $21.1k |
| 2 | Cigna professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +3 other terms | 7 | $15.8k | $16.9k | $2.7k | 16% | — | $10.2k – $21.8k |
| 3 | Blue Cross Blue Shield percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 6 | $34.9k | $30.7k | $9.3k | 30% | — | $9.8k – $34.9k |
| 4 | Humana professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 6 | $4.7k | $7.2k | $3.3k | 45% | — | $3.8k – $12.4k |
| 5 | MultiPlan percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +4 other terms | 6 | $20.3k | $18.7k | $3.6k | 19% | — | $10.7k – $20.3k |
| 6 | Phcs percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 6 | $37.5k | $33.5k | $8.9k | 27% | — | $13.5k – $37.5k |
| 7 | Caresource percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 5 | $18.6k | $18.6k | — | — | — | $18.6k – $18.6k |
| 8 | First Health percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +4 other terms | 5 | $20.3k | $20.3k | — | — | — | $20.3k – $20.3k |
| 9 | UnitedHealthcare percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +5 other terms | 5 | $13.1k | $13.2k | $3.6k | 27% | — | $9.4k – $18.3k |
| 10 | Medica professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 4 | $11.1k | $17.2k | $4.8k | 28% | — | $4.6k – $20.7k |
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