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Facial Approach To The Front Skull Base

Texas rates for HCPCS 61581

The exposure stage of a skull-base operation, in which a surgeon opens a path through the face and the front floor of the skull so that a growth can be reached. It is a wide exposure that can include removing the contents of the eye socket and part of the upper jaw, and it stops short of removing the growth itself, which is a separate part of the operation.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Facial Approach To The Front Skull Base cost?

$3,825

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,825 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $437 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,388 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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$437$282 to $2,291
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,388$1,380 to $6,026

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,388 · 10th to 90th $603 to $10,965Professionalmedian $437 · 10th to 90th $56 to $3,548
$100$1K$10K$100Kfacility $3,388professional $437

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
$1,122.02
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$9,120.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$3,311.31
BCBS Texas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,754.23
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$14,125.38
BCBS Texas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$4,265.80
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$2,691.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,754.23
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$4,466.84
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$19,498.45
Median
$19,498.45
Typical High
$20,417.38
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$6,918.31
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$3,548.13
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$2,187.76
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$251,188.64
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,754.23
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$4,570.88
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$8,912.51
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$4,168.69
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$2,344.23
12 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
$1,230.27
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$1,548.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$616.60
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$2,290.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$457.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$309.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$2,137.96
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$1,548.82
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$616.60
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$2,290.87
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$457.09
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$309.03
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$2,137.96

Where Texas sits

The same service costs 12.3 times more in Maine than in Washington. 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

Texas· 45th of 51

$3,825

$437 physician + $3,388 facility

ME $36,075WA $2,929

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.