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Surgical Access To The Front Skull Base

Alaska rates for HCPCS 61580

Creates the opening a surgeon needs to reach the front part of the base of the skull, working through the nose and sinuses and stopping short of the membrane that wraps the brain. It is the access stage of a larger operation, carried out before the growth or damaged tissue itself is dealt with.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Surgical Access To The Front Skull Base cost?

$20,715

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $20,715 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $10,000 to the doctor who performs it, and $10,715 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$10,000$6,026 to $10,000
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$10,715$1,820 to $16,982

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $10,715 · 10th to 90th $1,000 to $251,189Professionalmedian $10,000 · 10th to 90th $2,512 to $13,804
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $10,715professional $10,000

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
$9,772.37
Median
$12,022.64
Typical High
$16,595.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$11,748.98
Typical High
$14,125.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$7,943.28
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,715.35
Median
$11,748.98
Typical High
$16,982.44
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$11,748.98
Typical High
$15,135.61
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10,000.00
Median
$10,000.00
Typical High
$10,000.00
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10,715.19
Median
$251,188.64
Typical High
$346,736.85
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$7,943.28
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
$2,570.40
Median
$6,456.54
Typical High
$14,791.08

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 11.2 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

$20,715

$10,000 physician + $10,715 facility

ME $35,827MD $3,193

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.