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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast

Implanting a brain stimulator battery with two or more leads

CPT 61886the billing code this page is about

Placement or replacement of an implanted pulse generator or receiver under the skin, connected to two or more electrode arrays in or on the brain.

Hospitals typically charge $7,426 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 357 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $16,483. Most fall between $1,558 and $41,350 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
357
States
41
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 357 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
$994$1,943$7,426$36,628$50,195

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 50× what the cheapest tenth charges ($994 vs $50,195).

How the prices are spread

$656 – $1,034: 20 hospitals$656$1,034 – $1,630: 37 hospitals$1,630 – $2,571: 47 hospitals$1,630$2,571 – $4,054: 26 hospitals$4,054 – $6,393: 28 hospitals$4,054$6,393 – $10,081: 7 hospitals$10,081 – $15,897: 16 hospitals$10,081$15,897 – $25,068: 31 hospitals$25,068 – $39,530: 47 hospitals$25,068$39,530 – $62,335: 64 hospitals$39,530median $7,426price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (323 of 357 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$656$1,03420
$1,034$1,63037
$1,630$2,57147
$2,571$4,05426
$4,054$6,39328
$6,393$10,0817
$10,081$15,89716
$15,897$25,06831
$25,068$39,53047
$39,530$62,33564

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$31,526
Median cash price$7,426
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.24×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $7,426.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,943 across 14 hospitalsIL$1,943Wisconsin: median $4,179 across 13 hospitalsWI$4,179Michigan: median $2,372 across 14 hospitalsMI$2,372New York: median $36,061 across 35 hospitalsNY$36,061Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $2,857 across 11 hospitalsOR$2,857Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $2,026 across 16 hospitalsIA$2,026Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: median $41,985 across 22 hospitalsOH$41,985Pennsylvania: median $14,621 across 20 hospitalsPA$14,621New Jersey: median $33,304 across 30 hospitalsNJ$33,304Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $23,262 across 30 hospitalsCA$23,262Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 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: 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,448 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,448Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $13,881 across 21 hospitalsTX$13,881Florida: median $30,589 across 11 hospitalsFL$30,589
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $7,426. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH22$41,985+465%$4,036 – $94,019
New York NY35$36,061+386%$12,077 – $41,350
New Jersey NJ30$33,304+348%$5,110 – $39,925
Florida FL11$30,589+312%$2,840 – $46,238
California CA30$23,262+213%$23,262 – $23,262
Pennsylvania PA20$14,621+97%$551 – $47,321
Texas TX21$13,881+87%$13,881 – $22,760
Wisconsin WI13$4,179−44%$4,179 – $5,907
Oregon OR11$2,857−62%$1,653 – $2,857
Michigan MI14$2,372−68%$1,558 – $42,431
Iowa IA16$2,026−73%$2,026 – $2,026
Illinois IL14$1,943−74%$664 – $60,456
Oklahoma OK13$1,448−81%$1,448 – $62,130
Minnesota MN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not 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
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $7,426.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care306$14,621$1,653 – $41,350
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access38$2,857$1,166 – $13,881
Ownership
For-profit28$13,881$896 – $50,195
Government47$3,150$1,685 – $36,061
Non-profit279$11,391$1,558 – $41,350
System affiliation
Part of a system300$13,881$1,653 – $41,350
Independent57$2,502$1,299 – $35,075

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,834
Median cash price$7,426
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

192 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,333 and the average of the middle 60% is $8,118; most fall between $1,166 and $25,062.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 192 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
$735$1,386$2,333$23,262$44,207

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 60× what the cheapest tenth charges ($735 vs $44,207).

Of the 203 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 192 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

357 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 377 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted357
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here13
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code377

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Insj/Rplcmt Cranial Neurostim Gener 2/> Eltrds.

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, “Implanting a brain stimulator battery with two or more leads (CPT 61886) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-61886-implanting-a-brain-stimulator-battery-with-two-or-more-leads