Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.
Original text from hospital filings
DRAIN NECK/CHEST LESION
Based on 228–2,280 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$90
Average
$3.7k
Median
$3.3k
High
$52.2k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Monmouth Medical Center Long Branch, NJ | $3.5k | $4.2k | $2.4k | 57% | 11–110 | $594 – $10.6k |
| 2 | Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Livingston, NJ | $4.2k | $5.5k | $3.5k | 63% | 10–100 | $301 – $14.2k |
| 3 | Central Washington Health Services Association Wenatchee, WA | $4.6k | $5.4k | $2.4k | 45% | 9–90 | $1.4k – $10.0k |
| 4 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $1.1k | $1.5k | $870 | 57% | 7–70 | $541 – $4.1k |
| 5 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $1.2k | $1.7k | $1.0k | 59% | 7–70 | $513 – $4.9k |
| 6 | Methodist Lebonheur Childrens Hosp MEMPHIS, TN | $2.6k | $5.3k | $5.9k | 112% | 6–60 | $250 – $21.6k |
| 7 | St Luke's Regional Medical Center, LTD Boise, ID | $5.3k | $5.6k | $1.4k | 24% | 6–60 | $3.1k – $8.6k |
| 8 | Covenant Medical Center Inc Saginaw, MI | $492 | $1.3k | $1.3k | 103% | 6–60 | $291 – $5.7k |
| 9 | Mayo Clinic Health System Eau Claire 54703-5270 | $2.9k | $2.3k | $996 | 44% | 5–50 | $123 – $7.6k |
| 10 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $1.1k | $1.5k | $1.6k | 106% | 4–40 | $28 – $6.7k |
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