CPT 32020
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
Insertion of chest tube
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Low
$66
Average
$7.2k
Median
$4.4k
High
$50k
Showing only prices reported under the fee schedule methodology. Choose another in the filter below to change the chart. 145 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 76.3× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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Reflects negotiated fee schedule rates with commercial payers.
| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital, Inc Shawnee, OK | $4.1k | $4.1k | — | — | — | $4.1k – $4.1k |
| 2 | Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital Baytown, TX | $7.4k | $7.4k | $113 | 2% | — | $7.3k – $7.5k |
| 3 | Wellstar Kennestone Hospital Marietta, GA | $3.4k | $3.4k | $1.7k | 50% | — | $1.7k – $5.1k |
| 4 | Westfield Memorial Hospital Inc WESTFIELD, NY | $187 | $187 | $32 | 17% | — | $155 – $219 |
| 5 | Northside Hospital, Inc. Lawrenceville, GA | $50k | $50k | — | — | — | $50k – $50k |
| 6 | Northside Hospital, Inc. Atlanta, GA | $50k | $50k | — | — | — | $50k – $50k |
| 7 | Northbay Medical Center Fairfield, CA | $1.2k | $1.2k | — | — | — | $1.2k – $1.2k |
| 8 | OSF Saint Francis Medical Center Peoria, IL | $5.9k | $5.9k | $1.6k | 27% | — | $4.3k – $7.4k |
| 9 | Covenant Medical Center Lubbock, TX | $4.8k | $4.8k | $1.6k | 33% | — | $3.2k – $6.3k |
| 10 | Kaleida Health Buffalo, NY | $312 | $1.3k | $1.7k | 132% | — | $276 – $4.1k |
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