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Procedure price report · Incision and excision of CNS

Removal of lesion at front of skull base, outside dura

CPT 61600the billing code this page is about

Removal of a tumor, vascular lesion, or infected tissue from the floor of the front part of the skull base, working outside the membrane that covers the brain.

Hospitals typically charge $4,464 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 138 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,025. Most fall between $3,165 and $7,803 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
138
States
36
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 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
$2,171$3,478$4,464$7,042$10,290

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,171 vs $10,290).

How the prices are spread

$1,641 – $2,073: 8 hospitals$1,641$2,073 – $2,619: 7 hospitals$2,619 – $3,309: 13 hospitals$2,619$3,309 – $4,180: 30 hospitals$4,180 – $5,281: 17 hospitals$4,180$5,281 – $6,671: 18 hospitals$6,671 – $8,427: 19 hospitals$6,671$8,427 – $10,646: 10 hospitals$10,646 – $13,449: 3 hospitals$10,646$13,449 – $16,991: 4 hospitals$13,449median $4,464price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (129 of 138 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,641$2,0738
$2,073$2,6197
$2,619$3,30913
$3,309$4,18030
$4,180$5,28117
$5,281$6,67118
$6,671$8,42719
$8,427$10,64610
$10,646$13,4493
$13,449$16,9914

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $4,464.

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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals 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: median $2,703 across 10 hospitalsIL$2,703Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $2,813 across 12 hospitalsMI$2,813New York: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $3,865 across 10 hospitalsOR$3,865Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital 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 $7,803 across 11 hospitalsOH$7,803Pennsylvania: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $5,339 across 13 hospitalsNJ$5,339Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 4 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew 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 $3,478 across 10 hospitalsOK$3,478Louisiana: 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,464. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH11$7,803+75%$4,227 – $7,803
New Jersey NJ13$5,339+20%$4,350 – $6,311
Oregon OR10$3,865−13%$3,865 – $7,042
Oklahoma OK10$3,478−22%$3,478 – $3,478
Michigan MI12$2,813−37%$2,813 – $4,464
Illinois IL10$2,703−39%$1,641 – $9,191
New York NY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not 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
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not 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
Washington WA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $4,464.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care117$4,464$3,267 – $7,803
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access13fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit15fewer than 20 hospitals
Government14fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit108$4,627$3,165 – $7,803
System affiliation
Part of a system105$4,464$3,165 – $7,803
Independent33$4,481$3,267 – $7,224

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,946
Median cash price$4,464
Cash as a share of list, median hospital70%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 30%. 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

138 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 162 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted138
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code162

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 Rescj/Exc Les Base Ant Cranial Fossa Extradural.

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 lesion at front of skull base, outside dura (CPT 61600) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-61600-removal-of-lesion-at-front-of-skull-base-outside-dura