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Small Drill Hole In The Skull For Puncture

North Dakota 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?

$1,370

Typical total for the visit. In North Dakota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,370 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $933 to the doctor who performs it, and $437 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$933$562 to $1,096
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$437$437 to $646

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $437 · 10th to 90th $437 to $8,511Professionalmedian $933 · 10th to 90th $437 to $1,230
$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $437professional $933

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
$436.52
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$436.52
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,230.27
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,380.38
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$1,318.26
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$954.99
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$2,041.74
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,096.48

Where North Dakota 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

North Dakota· 48th of 50

$1,370

$933 physician + $437 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.