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Removal of a tumor or other lesion of the skull bone

CPT 61500the billing code this page is about

Part of the skull bone is removed to take out a tumor or other abnormal growth involving the bone itself.

Hospitals typically charge $3,250 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 318 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,000. Most fall between $2,031 and $8,819 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
318
States
44
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 318 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
$1,641$2,118$3,250$6,225$11,220

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,641 vs $11,220).

How the prices are spread

$1,208 – $1,549: 16 hospitals$1,208$1,549 – $1,986: 29 hospitals$1,986 – $2,547: 68 hospitals$1,986$2,547 – $3,265: 33 hospitals$3,265 – $4,186: 38 hospitals$3,265$4,186 – $5,367: 28 hospitals$5,367 – $6,882: 20 hospitals$5,367$6,882 – $8,823: 21 hospitals$8,823 – $11,312: 25 hospitals$8,823$11,312 – $14,503: 12 hospitals$11,312median $3,250price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (290 of 318 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,208$1,54916
$1,549$1,98629
$1,986$2,54768
$2,547$3,26533
$3,265$4,18638
$4,186$5,36728
$5,367$6,88220
$6,882$8,82321
$8,823$11,31225
$11,312$14,50312

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $3,250.

Alaska: 1 hospital 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $9,563 across 16 hospitalsMN$9,563Illinois: median $2,468 across 13 hospitalsIL$2,468Wisconsin: median $8,819 across 27 hospitalsWI$8,819Michigan: median $1,812 across 31 hospitalsMI$1,812New York: median $2,134 across 10 hospitalsNY$2,134Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,399 across 10 hospitalsOR$2,399Nevada: 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 $3,149 across 18 hospitalsIA$3,149Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,962 across 12 hospitalsOH$3,962Pennsylvania: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $4,627 across 21 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,449 across 25 hospitalsCA$2,449Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,422 across 11 hospitalsWV$1,422Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $2,143 across 10 hospitalsOK$2,143Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,250. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Minnesota MN16$9,563+194%$3,250 – $11,220
Wisconsin WI27$8,819+171%$3,651 – $15,408
New Jersey NJ21$4,627+42%$1,641 – $5,788
Ohio OH12$3,962+22%$2,870 – $4,987
Iowa IA18$3,149−3%$3,149 – $3,564
Illinois IL13$2,468−24%$2,053 – $11,707
California CA25$2,449−25%$2,449 – $3,675
Oregon OR10$2,399−26%$2,399 – $4,236
Oklahoma OK10$2,143−34%$2,143 – $2,143
New York NY10$2,134−34%$647 – $3,944
Michigan MI31$1,812−44%$1,781 – $3,667
West Virginia WV11$1,422−56%$1,406 – $3,707
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not 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
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $3,250.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care242$3,149$2,021 – $6,855
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access64$3,651$2,031 – $9,706
Ownership
For-profit26$4,313$2,053 – $9,706
Government42$3,487$2,257 – $9,251
Non-profit249$3,175$1,995 – $8,819
System affiliation
Part of a system254$3,230$2,021 – $8,819
Independent64$3,282$2,134 – $5,660

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,710
Median cash price$3,250
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

181 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,654 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,876; most fall between $2,053 and $4,677.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 181 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
$1,456$2,143$2,654$3,944$8,819

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,456 vs $8,819).

Of the 215 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 181 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

318 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 369 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted318
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
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 — excluded20
Hospitals that filed this code369

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 Other OR therapeutic nervous system procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Craniectomy W/Excision Tumor/Oth Bone Lesion Skl.

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, “Removal of a tumor or other lesion of the skull bone (CPT 61500) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-61500-removal-of-a-tumor-or-other-lesion-of-the-skull-bone