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Procedure price report · Other non-OR or closed therapeutic nervous system procedures

Puncture of a brain shunt or reservoir to draw or inject

CPT 61070the billing code this page is about

Needle puncture of an implanted brain shunt tube or reservoir to withdraw fluid for testing or to inject medication or contrast dye.

Hospitals typically charge $867 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,512 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $914. Most fall between $353 and $1,663 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,512
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 1,512 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
$171$462$867$1,445$2,371

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($171 vs $2,371).

How the prices are spread

$115 – $160: 56 hospitals$115$160 – $222: 75 hospitals$222 – $309: 74 hospitals$222$309 – $429: 72 hospitals$429 – $597: 134 hospitals$429$597 – $830: 237 hospitals$830 – $1,155: 259 hospitals$830$1,155 – $1,606: 204 hospitals$1,606 – $2,233: 146 hospitals$1,606$2,233 – $3,106: 111 hospitals$2,233median $867price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,368 of 1,512 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$115$16056
$160$22275
$222$30974
$309$42972
$429$597134
$597$830237
$830$1,155259
$1,155$1,606204
$1,606$2,233146
$2,233$3,106111

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$721
Median cash price$867
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.20×

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 $867.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $898 across 44 hospitalsWA$898Idaho: median $1,297 across 15 hospitalsID$1,297Montana: median $86 across 11 hospitalsMT$86North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $896 across 34 hospitalsMN$896Illinois: median $940 across 59 hospitalsIL$940Wisconsin: median $545 across 66 hospitalsWI$545Michigan: median $815 across 59 hospitalsMI$815New York: median $852 across 53 hospitalsNY$852Massachusetts: median $964 across 19 hospitalsMA$964Oregon: median $672 across 31 hospitalsOR$672Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,185 across 10 hospitalsSD$1,185Iowa: median $741 across 19 hospitalsIA$741Indiana: median $478 across 51 hospitalsIN$478Ohio: median $1,177 across 85 hospitalsOH$1,177Pennsylvania: median $953 across 63 hospitalsPA$953New Jersey: median $2,598 across 34 hospitalsNJ$2,598Connecticut: median $874 across 13 hospitalsCT$874Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,321 across 118 hospitalsCA$1,321Utah: median $613 across 23 hospitalsUT$613Colorado: median $800 across 31 hospitalsCO$800Nebraska: median $445 across 19 hospitalsNE$445Missouri: median $988 across 31 hospitalsMO$988Kentucky: median $1,180 across 22 hospitalsKY$1,180West Virginia: median $259 across 19 hospitalsWV$259Virginia: median $653 across 35 hospitalsVA$653Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $581 across 28 hospitalsAZ$581New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $397 across 11 hospitalsKS$397Arkansas: median $465 across 12 hospitalsAR$465Tennessee: median $280 across 27 hospitalsTN$280North Carolina: median $584 across 40 hospitalsNC$584South Carolina: median $964 across 32 hospitalsSC$964Oklahoma: median $537 across 33 hospitalsOK$537Louisiana: median $450 across 24 hospitalsLA$450Mississippi: median $385 across 28 hospitalsMS$385Alabama: median $572 across 13 hospitalsAL$572Georgia: median $1,449 across 55 hospitalsGA$1,449Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $994 across 126 hospitalsTX$994Florida: median $1,254 across 63 hospitalsFL$1,254
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $867. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ34$2,598+200%$767 – $5,339
Georgia GA55$1,449+67%$1,117 – $2,507
California CA118$1,321+52%$787 – $2,080
Idaho ID15$1,297+50%$454 – $1,886
Florida FL63$1,254+45%$796 – $2,425
South Dakota SD10$1,185+37%$1,047 – $1,586
Kentucky KY22$1,180+36%$467 – $2,301
Ohio OH85$1,177+36%$586 – $1,760
Texas TX126$994+15%$480 – $1,368
Missouri MO31$988+14%$319 – $1,410
Massachusetts MA19$964+11%$770 – $1,411
South Carolina SC32$964+11%$877 – $1,197
Pennsylvania PA63$953+10%$493 – $1,720
Illinois IL59$940+8%$267 – $1,654
Washington WA44$898+4%$301 – $1,471
Minnesota MN34$896+3%$531 – $2,213
Connecticut CT13$874+1%$300 – $1,100
New York NY53$852−2%$648 – $1,571
Michigan MI59$815−6%$82 – $1,299
Colorado CO31$800−8%$604 – $1,224
Iowa IA19$741−15%$140 – $1,115
Oregon OR31$672−23%$185 – $1,603
Virginia VA35$653−25%$321 – $1,343
Utah UT23$613−29%$613 – $721
North Carolina NC40$584−33%$492 – $990
Arizona AZ28$581−33%$290 – $3,131
Alabama AL13$572−34%$298 – $890
Wisconsin WI66$545−37%$198 – $1,038
Oklahoma OK33$537−38%$118 – $788
Indiana IN51$478−45%$146 – $1,282
Arkansas AR12$465−46%$383 – $751
Louisiana LA24$450−48%$248 – $948
Nebraska NE19$445−49%$124 – $659
Kansas KS11$397−54%$319 – $1,089
Mississippi MS28$385−56%$205 – $851
Tennessee TN27$280−68%$172 – $726
West Virginia WV19$259−70%$59 – $1,052
Montana MT11$86−90%$75 – $246
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $867.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,277$884$419 – $1,758
Children’s46$884$234 – $1,563
Critical access184$613$160 – $1,305
Ownership
For-profit146$994$434 – $1,942
Government185$751$356 – $1,257
Non-profit1,176$880$348 – $1,663
System affiliation
Part of a system1,302$881$363 – $1,720
Independent210$771$229 – $1,366

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,591
Median cash price$867
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

1,185 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $884 and the average of the middle 60% is $936; most fall between $393 and $1,672.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,185 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
$198$488$884$1,449$2,371

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($198 vs $2,371).

Of the 1,251 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,185 gave a usable cash price; 27 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 39 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,512 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (38%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,615 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,512
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here59
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded43
Hospitals that filed this code1,615

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 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other non-OR or closed therapeutic nervous system procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Brain Shunt Tube/Reserv Injectn.

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, “Puncture of a brain shunt or reservoir to draw or inject (CPT 61070) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-61070-puncture-of-a-brain-shunt-or-reservoir-to-draw-or-inject