What’s a Craniotomy Cost?

Here's a little information from Johns Hopkins dated 7/2017 that I found publicly posted online:

$45,077 (hospital charges only)(non-trauma)

Click to access jhh_charges.pdf

Of course, hospital charges are often funny money, based less on cost accounting than on reimbursement formulas. but that Johns Hopkins attempts to even offer a document ball parking costs tells  you something both brave and sad about how little Americans know about health care reimbursement.