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Repeat Fluid Tap Through An Infant's Soft Spot

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 61001

A needle is passed through the soft spot or a suture line on a baby's skull to draw off fluid or blood collecting between the brain and its covering. This is a repeat tap performed after an earlier one, when fluid has built up again. It relieves pressure on the growing brain and provides fluid for testing.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Repeat Fluid Tap Through An Infant's Soft Spot cost?

$661

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $661 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $162 from a physician practice, and about $1,288 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$162$120 to $178
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,288$794 to $2,570

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,288 · 10th to 90th $398 to $3,467Professionalmedian $162 · 10th to 90th $78 to $219
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,288professional $162

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$3,715.35
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$218.78
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,445.44
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$181.97
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$239.88
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$2,290.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$229.09

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 28.8 times more in California than in Delaware. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Louisiana· 5th of 51

$661

CA $3,162DE $110

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.