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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic nervous system procedures

Brain biopsy through a small skull opening

CPT 61750the billing code this page is about

Image-targeted biopsy, drainage, or removal of a brain lesion through a small hole drilled in the skull, without added CT or MRI guidance during the procedure.

Hospitals typically charge $3,839 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 235 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,951. Most fall between $2,183 and $6,027 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
235
States
39
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 235 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
$1,281$2,452$3,839$6,027$9,052

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,281 vs $9,052).

How the prices are spread

$932 – $1,241: 11 hospitals$932$1,241 – $1,654: 9 hospitals$1,654 – $2,203: 19 hospitals$1,654$2,203 – $2,934: 30 hospitals$2,934 – $3,908: 43 hospitals$2,934$3,908 – $5,206: 42 hospitals$5,206 – $6,934: 39 hospitals$5,206$6,934 – $9,237: 14 hospitals$9,237 – $12,304: 4 hospitals$9,237$12,304 – $16,389: 8 hospitals$12,304median $3,839price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (219 of 235 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$932$1,24111
$1,241$1,6549
$1,654$2,20319
$2,203$2,93430
$2,934$3,90843
$3,908$5,20642
$5,206$6,93439
$6,934$9,23714
$9,237$12,3044
$12,304$16,3898

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $3,839.

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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 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 $9,052 across 14 hospitalsMN$9,052Illinois: median $2,427 across 12 hospitalsIL$2,427Wisconsin: median $6,027 across 24 hospitalsWI$6,027Michigan: median $4,044 across 26 hospitalsMI$4,044New York: median $3,479 across 11 hospitalsNY$3,479Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $2,628 across 10 hospitalsOR$2,628Nevada: 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: median $3,308 across 16 hospitalsIA$3,308Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: median $5,156 across 11 hospitalsOH$5,156Pennsylvania: median $1,041 across 15 hospitalsPA$1,041New Jersey: median $5,110 across 12 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 6 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 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: 4 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 3 hospitals 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 $2,945 across 10 hospitalsOK$2,945Louisiana: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,839. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Minnesota MN14$9,052+136%$3,769 – $9,052
Wisconsin WI24$6,027+57%$6,027 – $16,389
Ohio OH11$5,156+34%$3,029 – $5,156
New Jersey NJ12$5,110+33%$4,350 – $5,855
Michigan MI26$4,044+5%$2,452 – $4,044
New York NY11$3,479−9%$1,791 – $4,150
Iowa IA16$3,308−14%$3,308 – $3,308
Oklahoma OK10$2,945−23%$2,945 – $2,945
Oregon OR10$2,628−32%$2,628 – $4,515
Illinois IL12$2,427−37%$1,111 – $9,966
Pennsylvania PA15$1,041−73%$881 – $2,199
California CA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not 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
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not 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
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not 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 $3,839.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care185$3,479$2,146 – $5,660
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access41$6,027$2,455 – $7,715
Ownership
For-profit13fewer than 20 hospitals
Government23$3,694$2,452 – $5,303
Non-profit198$3,906$2,183 – $6,027
System affiliation
Part of a system196$4,044$2,199 – $6,311
Independent39$3,029$2,183 – $4,983

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,465
Median cash price$3,839
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

135 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,051 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,346; most fall between $2,120 and $5,303.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 135 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
$1,418$2,388$3,051$4,932$6,027

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,418 vs $6,027).

Of the 157 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 135 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

235 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 272 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted235
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here24
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 — excluded12
Hospitals that filed this code272

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 diagnostic nervous system procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Stereotactic Bx Aspir/Exc Burr Intracranial Les.

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, “Brain biopsy through a small skull opening (CPT 61750) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-61750-brain-biopsy-through-a-small-skull-opening