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Brain Cyst Removal Or Drainage, Upper Brain

Alaska rates for HCPCS 61516

Opens the skull to reach a fluid-filled cyst in the upper part of the brain and either takes it out or cuts a lasting opening in its wall so the fluid drains into the surrounding spaces. Relieving the cyst takes pressure off the brain tissue around it. The opening may be a small drilled hole, a piece of bone taken out and left out, or a bone flap lifted and put back at the end.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Brain Cyst Removal Or Drainage, Upper Brain cost?

$16,274

Typical total for the visit. In Alaska, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $16,274 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $7,762 to the doctor who performs it, and $8,511 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$7,762$4,266 to $7,762
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$8,511$1,820 to $16,596

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $8,511 · 10th to 90th $1,000 to $251,189Professionalmedian $7,762 · 10th to 90th $1,950 to $11,482
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $8,511professional $7,762

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8,511.38
Median
$12,022.64
Typical High
$16,595.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$14,125.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$6,025.60
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,884.03
Median
$8,511.38
Typical High
$12,302.69
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$6,456.54
Typical High
$11,748.98
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7,762.47
Median
$7,762.47
Typical High
$7,762.47
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8,317.64
Median
$251,188.64
Typical High
$346,736.85
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$6,025.60
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$4,265.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$4,786.30
Typical High
$10,964.78

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 13.4 times more in Maine than in Maryland. 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

Alaska· 2nd of 51

$16,274

$7,762 physician + $8,511 facility

ME $34,930MD $2,604

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.