CPT 61542
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
$10.9k
Median
$6.5k
High
$50k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
15 payers; the 90th percentile is 9.1× 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 fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms | 35 | $7.4k | $7.7k | $6.1k | 79% | — | $1.3k – $33.6k |
| 2 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 17 | $4.8k | $6.4k | $4.5k | 69% | — | $2.5k – $20.7k |
| 3 | Anthem facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 5 | $3.1k | $29.7k | $51.4k | 173% | — | $3.1k – $132.5k |
| 4 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · both · +1 other terms | 5 | $4.3k | $5.1k | $1.6k | 30% | — | $4.3k – $8.2k |
| 5 | First Health fee schedule · both | 5 | $2.5k | $2.5k | — | — | — | $2.5k – $2.5k |
| 6 | Tricare fee schedule · outpatient | 5 | $50k | $50k | — | — | — | $50k – $50k |
| 7 | Oscar fee schedule · outpatient | 3 | $4.4k | $4.3k | $134 | 3% | — | $4.1k – $4.4k |
| 8 | Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient | 2 | $15k | $15k | — | — | — | $15k – $15k |
| 9 | Healthpartners professional · fee schedule · both · +1 other terms | 2 | $6.4k | $6.4k | $666 | 10% | — | $5.7k – $7.0k |
| 10 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 2 | $6.1k | $6.3k | $1.5k | 23% | — | $5.0k – $8.3k |
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