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Placing a Fluid Reservoir or Pump Under the Scalp

New Jersey rates for HCPCS 61215

Puts a small reservoir or pump just beneath the skin and connects it to a catheter sitting in the fluid-filled chamber of the brain. Once in place it can be used to draw off spinal fluid or to deliver medicine straight into that space through the skin, without a fresh brain procedure each time. It is often used for chemotherapy or antibiotics that have to reach the brain fluid directly.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Placing a Fluid Reservoir or Pump Under the Scalp cost?

$7,244

Typical facility fee. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,244 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $6,026 to $10,000.

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 3 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7,244 · 10th to 90th $4,169 to $11,749
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $7,244

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
$4,168.69
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$11,748.98
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14,125.38
Median
$21,877.62
Typical High
$38,904.51
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,630.78
Median
$8,709.64
Typical High
$19,498.45

Where New Jersey sits

The same service costs 37.2 times more in Wyoming 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.

New Jersey· 13th of 50

$7,244

WY $17,783WV $479

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.