CPT 61553

Skull craniectomy for craniosynostosis, staged procedure

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.

Model: claude-haiku-5-5
Provider: anthropic
API: message_batches
Reasoning effort: low
Max output tokens: 4096
Prompt version (hash): 444523875572
Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

Craniectomy for craniostenosis; each stage of multiple stages

Payer pricing summary

Low

$1.3k

Average

$25.7k

Median

$25.7k

High

$50k

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1	Tricare fee schedule · outpatient	5	$50k	$50k	—	—	—	$50k – $50k
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient	2	$1.3k	$1.3k	—	—	—	$1.3k – $1.3k

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CPT 61553

Skull craniectomy for craniosynostosis, staged procedure

Model: claude-haiku-5-5
Provider: anthropic
API: message_batches
Reasoning effort: low
Max output tokens: 4096
Prompt version (hash): 444523875572
Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

Craniectomy for craniostenosis; each stage of multiple stages

Payer pricing summary

Low

$1.3k

Average

$25.7k

Median

$25.7k

High

$50k

Filter by billing methodology

All methodologies Case rate 6 Fee schedule 2 Per diem 0 Percent of billed charges 3 Other 3

Filter by billing class

#
1	Tricare fee schedule · outpatient	5	$50k	$50k	—	—	—	$50k – $50k
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient	2	$1.3k	$1.3k	—	—	—	$1.3k – $1.3k

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