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Procedure price report · Other non-OR or closed therapeutic nervous system procedures

Focused radiation treatment of one simple brain target

CPT 61796the billing code this page is about

Stereotactic radiosurgery delivering precisely aimed radiation beams to one simple lesion in the brain; covers the surgeon's work for the first lesion treated.

Hospitals typically charge $2,384 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 196 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,998. Most fall between $1,190 and $6,274 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
196
States
37
Filings dated
Sep 2025 – 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 196 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
$598$1,455$2,384$5,110$8,767

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($598 vs $8,767).

How the prices are spread

$447 – $626: 13 hospitals$447$626 – $877: 8 hospitals$877 – $1,228: 11 hospitals$877$1,228 – $1,718: 34 hospitals$1,718 – $2,405: 27 hospitals$1,718$2,405 – $3,367: 9 hospitals$3,367 – $4,714: 25 hospitals$3,367$4,714 – $6,598: 24 hospitals$6,598 – $9,237: 21 hospitals$6,598$9,237 – $12,930: 6 hospitals$9,237median $2,384price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (178 of 196 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$447$62613
$626$8778
$877$1,22811
$1,228$1,71834
$1,718$2,40527
$2,405$3,3679
$3,367$4,71425
$4,714$6,59824
$6,598$9,23721
$9,237$12,9306

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,384.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $6,274 across 23 hospitalsIL$6,274Wisconsin: median $8,767 across 19 hospitalsWI$8,767Michigan: median $3,400 across 14 hospitalsMI$3,400New York: 7 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: median $2,384 across 15 hospitalsIA$2,384Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $506 across 13 hospitalsPA$506New Jersey: median $5,339 across 13 hospitalsNJ$5,339Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 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 $1,679 across 10 hospitalsOK$1,679Louisiana: 9 hospitals 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: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,384. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI19$8,767+268%$4,750 – $8,767
Illinois IL23$6,274+163%$798 – $11,459
New Jersey NJ13$5,339+124%$4,350 – $6,839
Michigan MI14$3,400+43%$1,559 – $8,767
Iowa IA15$2,3840%$2,384 – $2,384
Oklahoma OK10$1,679−30%$1,679 – $1,679
Pennsylvania PA13$506−79%$428 – $667
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA3not 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
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not 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
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $2,384.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care164$2,384$1,022 – $6,274
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access24$4,750$1,574 – $8,767
Ownership
For-profit14fewer than 20 hospitals
Government20$1,856$1,190 – $3,598
Non-profit161$2,384$1,296 – $6,274
System affiliation
Part of a system166$2,785$1,332 – $6,839
Independent30$1,538$853 – $2,537

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,980
Median cash price$2,384
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

127 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,211 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,643; most fall between $1,012 and $6,852.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 127 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
$571$1,411$2,211$4,966$8,767

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($571 vs $8,767).

Of the 142 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 127 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

196 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 226 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted196
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here20
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code226

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 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 Other non-OR or closed therapeutic nervous system procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Stereotactic Radiosurgery 1 Simple Cranial 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, “Focused radiation treatment of one simple brain target (CPT 61796) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-61796-focused-radiation-treatment-of-one-simple-brain-target