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Brain Cyst Removal Or Drainage, Upper Brain

Louisiana 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?

$3,585

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,585 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $2,630 to the doctor who performs it, and $955 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$2,630$2,188 to $3,090
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$955$550 to $2,291

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $955 · 10th to 90th $389 to $3,890Professionalmedian $2,630 · 10th to 90th $1,820 to $3,311
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $955professional $2,630

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

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$3,890.45
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$3,090.30
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$3,162.28
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,621.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$3,235.94
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,698.24
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$3,715.35
6 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,548.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$616.60
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$2,290.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$457.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$309.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$2,137.96

Where Louisiana 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

Louisiana· 40th of 51

$3,585

$2,630 physician + $955 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.