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Small Drill Hole In The Skull For Puncture

Mississippi rates for HCPCS 61105

A narrow hole is drilled through the skull so a needle or fine tube can be passed through to reach fluid inside or just outside the brain. It is done to draw off fluid or to take a pressure reading.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Small Drill Hole In The Skull For Puncture cost?

$1,938

Typical total for the visit. In Mississippi, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,938 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $708 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,230 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

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.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$708$468 to $1,096
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,230$776 to $1,905

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,230 · 10th to 90th $427 to $2,818Professionalmedian $708 · 10th to 90th $427 to $1,349
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $1,230professional $708

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
$426.58
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,995.26
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,348.96
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$758.58
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,000.00
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$912.01
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$1,174.90

Where Mississippi sits

The same service costs 10.2 times more in Nebraska than in West Virginia. 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.

Physician feeFacility fee

Mississippi· 39th of 50

$1,938

$708 physician + $1,230 facility

NE $9,324WV $916

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.