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Prolonged Drug Delivery Into Brain Arteries

Pennsylvania rates for HCPCS 61650

Threads a catheter up into the arteries of the brain and delivers medication directly into them over an extended period, covering the first area of brain circulation treated. It is used when a drug has to act at high strength in the brain vessels themselves rather than being given into a vein.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Prolonged Drug Delivery Into Brain Arteries cost?

$4,786

Typical facility fee. In Pennsylvania, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,786 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $1,047 to $7,762.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,786 · 10th to 90th $575 to $8,511
$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $4,786

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$4,786.30
Typical High
$8,317.64
Capital Blue Cross
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20,417.38
Median
$21,379.62
Typical High
$57,543.99
Highmark BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,943.28
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$7,943.28
Martin's Point
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$8,511.38
UPMC Health Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$602.56
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$7,079.46

Where Pennsylvania sits

The same service costs 40.7 times more in Maine than in West Virginia. 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.

Pennsylvania· 19th of 50

$4,786

ME $21,878WV $537

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.