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Brain Cyst Removal Or Drainage, Upper Brain

Missouri 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?

$5,446

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,446 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $2,754 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,692 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$2,754$2,089 to $3,388
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,692$1,230 to $5,248

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,692 · 10th to 90th $525 to $10,965Professionalmedian $2,754 · 10th to 90th $1,905 to $5,754
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $2,692professional $2,754

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
$1,778.28
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$7,762.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$2,511.89
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$11,481.54
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$3,548.13
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
62 · Two surgeons
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$2,238.72
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
80 · Assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$562.34
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$489.78
BCBS Kansas City
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$2,818.38
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$2,691.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$4,168.69
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$11,220.18
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$15,848.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$10,964.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$5,128.61
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
$794.33
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$977.24
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$389.05
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,445.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$288.40
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$194.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,348.96

Where Missouri 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

Missouri· 21st of 51

$5,446

$2,754 physician + $2,692 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.