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Procedure price report · Incision and excision of CNS

Fluid drainage from an infant's soft spot, repeat tap

CPT 61001the billing code this page is about

Needle drainage of fluid from beneath the skull covering or brain fluid spaces of an infant through the fontanelle or suture line, billed for each later tap after the first.

Hospitals typically charge $767 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 217 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $739. Most fall between $193 and $1,602 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
217
States
35
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 217 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$125$209$767$1,368$2,873

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($125 vs $2,873).

How the prices are spread

$83 – $122: 11 hospitals$83$122 – $179: 20 hospitals$179 – $264: 35 hospitals$179$264 – $389: 12 hospitals$389 – $574: 5 hospitals$389$574 – $846: 34 hospitals$846 – $1,246: 32 hospitals$846$1,246 – $1,836: 23 hospitals$1,836 – $2,705: 2 hospitals$1,836$2,705 – $3,986: 23 hospitals$2,705median $767price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (197 of 217 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$83$12211
$122$17920
$179$26435
$264$38912
$389$5745
$574$84634
$846$1,24632
$1,246$1,83623
$1,836$2,7052
$2,705$3,98623

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$721
Median cash price$767
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.06×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $767.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $206 across 10 hospitalsIL$206Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $820 across 22 hospitalsNY$820Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $252 across 14 hospitalsIA$252Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $83 across 18 hospitalsPA$83New Jersey: median $3,786 across 22 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,873 across 35 hospitalsCA$2,873Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $177 across 12 hospitalsOK$177Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $878 across 19 hospitalsTX$878Florida: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $767. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ22$3,786+394%$767 – $5,419
California CA35$2,873+275%$1,602 – $2,873
Texas TX19$878+15%$813 – $878
New York NY22$820+7%$340 – $838
Iowa IA14$252−67%$252 – $252
Illinois IL10$206−73%$84 – $232
Oklahoma OK12$177−77%$177 – $177
Pennsylvania PA18$83−89%$67 – $1,171
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $767.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care198$816$193 – $1,602
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access11fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit17fewer than 20 hospitals
Government23$390$188 – $820
Non-profit177$797$201 – $1,602
System affiliation
Part of a system183$820$201 – $1,602
Independent34$291$175 – $913

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$397
Median cash price$767
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

138 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $338 and the average of the middle 60% is $633; most fall between $177 and $1,602.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 138 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$126$201$338$1,602$2,873

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($126 vs $2,873).

Of the 148 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 138 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

217 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 229 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted217
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here10
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded1
Hospitals that filed this code229

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 5, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Incision and excision of CNS family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Subdural Tap Fontanelle/Sutur Infant Uni/Bi Sbsq.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Fluid drainage from an infant's soft spot, repeat tap (CPT 61001) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-61001-fluid-drainage-from-an-infant-s-soft-spot-repeat-tap