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Procedure price report · Incision and excision of CNS

Approach to front skull base through forehead, outside dura

CPT 61582the billing code this page is about

Surgical access only to the front floor of the skull by opening forehead bone and lifting the frontal lobe without entering the brain covering; treatment of the lesion is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $5,419 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 134 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,800. Most fall between $3,150 and $9,136 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
134
States
34
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 134 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
$1,018$3,959$5,419$8,385$12,128

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,018 vs $12,128).

How the prices are spread

$829 – $1,108: 9 hospitals$829$1,108 – $1,479: 0 hospitals$1,479 – $1,975: 2 hospitals$1,479$1,975 – $2,637: 4 hospitals$2,637 – $3,521: 8 hospitals$2,637$3,521 – $4,702: 17 hospitals$4,702 – $6,279: 41 hospitals$4,702$6,279 – $8,385: 13 hospitals$8,385 – $11,196: 18 hospitals$8,385$11,196 – $14,951: 12 hospitals$11,196median $5,419price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (124 of 134 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$829$1,1089
$1,108$1,4790
$1,479$1,9752
$1,975$2,6374
$2,637$3,5218
$3,521$4,70217
$4,702$6,27941
$6,279$8,38513
$8,385$11,19618
$11,196$14,95112

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $5,419.

Alaska: 1 hospital 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $6,010 across 11 hospitalsMI$6,010New York: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: median $9,136 across 11 hospitalsOH$9,136Pennsylvania: median $849 across 15 hospitalsPA$849New Jersey: median $5,110 across 12 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: 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: 3 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital 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 $4,884 across 10 hospitalsOK$4,884Louisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,419. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH11$9,136+69%$5,244 – $9,136
Michigan MI11$6,010+11%$4,603 – $6,010
New Jersey NJ12$5,110−6%$4,350 – $5,855
Oklahoma OK10$4,884−10%$4,884 – $4,884
Pennsylvania PA15$849−84%$716 – $1,018
Illinois IL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not 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
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not 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
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not 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 $5,419.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care112$4,884$3,107 – $8,544
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access13fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit12fewer than 20 hospitals
Government17fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit104$4,995$3,150 – $9,136
System affiliation
Part of a system103$5,110$2,869 – $9,136
Independent31$6,197$4,461 – $9,335

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$8,237
Median cash price$5,419
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.

How complete is this

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

What the 153 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted134
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here17
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 code153

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 5, 2026 and September 23, 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 Cranfcl Ant Cranial Fossa Uni/Bi Craniot/Osteot.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Approach to front skull base through forehead, outside dura (CPT 61582) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-61582-approach-to-front-skull-base-through-forehead-outside-dura