CPT 61557
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
Incise skull/sutures
Low
$783
Average
$5.8k
Median
$4.1k
High
$24.3k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
21 payers; the 90th percentile is 6.6× 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 | Aetna facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +6 other terms | 15 | $1.9k | $1.7k | $1.3k | 75% | — | $693 – $4.1k |
| 2 | Cigna facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +4 other terms | 14 | $4.5k | $4.5k | $329 | 7% | — | $3.5k – $4.7k |
| 3 | MultiPlan facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +5 other terms | 12 | $4.4k | $4.4k | — | — | — | $4.4k – $4.4k |
| 4 | Clover facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 10 | $937 | $937 | — | — | — | $937 – $937 |
| 5 | UnitedHealthcare percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +6 other terms | 8 | $8.1k | $6.3k | $3.5k | 56% | — | $1.7k – $11.7k |
| 6 | Blue Cross Blue Shield percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +4 other terms | 6 | $34.9k | $30.4k | $9.9k | 33% | — | $8.2k – $34.9k |
| 7 | First Health percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +4 other terms | 6 | $12.9k | $10.8k | $4.8k | 44% | — | $146 – $12.9k |
| 8 | Humana professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +5 other terms | 6 | $3.0k | $5.6k | $3.2k | 58% | — | $2.6k – $10.7k |
| 9 | Caresource percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 5 | $18.6k | $18.6k | — | — | — | $18.6k – $18.6k |
| 10 | Phcs percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 5 | $37.5k | $37.5k | — | — | — | $37.5k – $37.5k |
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