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Procedure price report · Incision and excision of CNS

Skull burr hole to drain a blood clot on the brain

CPT 61154the billing code this page is about

A small hole is drilled in the skull to remove or drain a collection of blood lying on or just outside the surface of the brain.

Hospitals typically charge $3,678 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 396 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,705. Most fall between $1,973 and $5,971 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
396
States
46
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 396 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
$1,074$2,106$3,678$5,494$7,291

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,074 vs $7,291).

How the prices are spread

$644 – $869: 10 hospitals$644$869 – $1,174: 18 hospitals$1,174 – $1,584: 12 hospitals$1,174$1,584 – $2,138: 46 hospitals$2,138 – $2,886: 44 hospitals$2,138$2,886 – $3,896: 71 hospitals$3,896 – $5,258: 60 hospitals$3,896$5,258 – $7,098: 76 hospitals$7,098 – $9,580: 9 hospitals$7,098$9,580 – $12,931: 13 hospitals$9,580median $3,678price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (359 of 396 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$644$86910
$869$1,17418
$1,174$1,58412
$1,584$2,13846
$2,138$2,88644
$2,886$3,89671
$3,896$5,25860
$5,258$7,09876
$7,098$9,5809
$9,580$12,93113

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $3,678.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,946 across 13 hospitalsWA$2,946Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $6,157 across 14 hospitalsMN$6,157Illinois: median $2,993 across 22 hospitalsIL$2,993Wisconsin: median $5,971 across 27 hospitalsWI$5,971Michigan: median $3,529 across 30 hospitalsMI$3,529New York: median $2,416 across 15 hospitalsNY$2,416Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $4,114 across 21 hospitalsOR$4,114Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,993 across 18 hospitalsIA$2,993Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $4,438 across 12 hospitalsOH$4,438Pennsylvania: median $2,529 across 20 hospitalsPA$2,529New Jersey: median $5,339 across 13 hospitalsNJ$5,339Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,567 across 35 hospitalsCA$3,567Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $2,293 across 10 hospitalsCO$2,293Nebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $4,374 across 10 hospitalsKY$4,374West Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $1,074 across 11 hospitalsNC$1,074South Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $2,106 across 11 hospitalsOK$2,106Louisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $6,031 across 13 hospitalsTX$6,031Florida: median $4,438 across 12 hospitalsFL$4,438
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,678. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Minnesota MN14$6,157+67%$3,409 – $6,157
Texas TX13$6,031+64%$2,635 – $6,031
Wisconsin WI27$5,971+62%$5,494 – $12,931
New Jersey NJ13$5,339+45%$4,350 – $6,311
Florida FL12$4,438+21%$1,436 – $12,552
Ohio OH12$4,438+21%$2,026 – $5,217
Kentucky KY10$4,374+19%$1,691 – $4,374
Oregon OR21$4,114+12%$2,367 – $6,650
California CA35$3,567−3%$1,954 – $8,190
Michigan MI30$3,529−4%$1,973 – $3,759
Iowa IA18$2,993−19%$2,022 – $4,095
Illinois IL22$2,993−19%$999 – $5,623
Washington WA13$2,946−20%$2,052 – $6,638
Pennsylvania PA20$2,529−31%$188 – $3,858
New York NY15$2,416−34%$1,192 – $4,030
Colorado CO10$2,293−38%$1,275 – $6,153
Oklahoma OK11$2,106−43%$2,106 – $2,106
North Carolina NC11$1,074−71%$1,074 – $3,600
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $3,678.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care319$3,508$1,954 – $5,820
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access64$5,494$2,462 – $6,341
Ownership
For-profit21$3,604$999 – $8,249
Government39$3,451$2,054 – $6,565
Non-profit333$3,759$1,973 – $5,971
System affiliation
Part of a system342$3,759$1,973 – $6,031
Independent54$2,775$1,802 – $4,692

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,863
Median cash price$3,678
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

290 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,955 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,207; most fall between $1,592 and $5,494.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 290 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
$999$1,884$2,955$5,217$6,458

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($999 vs $6,458).

Of the 327 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 290 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

396 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 457 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted396
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here39
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 — excluded21
Hospitals that filed this code457

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 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 Burr Hole W/Evac&/Drg Hematoma Extradural/Sdrl.

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, “Skull burr hole to drain a blood clot on the brain (CPT 61154) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-61154-skull-burr-hole-to-drain-a-blood-clot-on-the-brain