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
Low
$154
Average
$7.4k
Median
$4.9k
High
$45.7k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
27 payers; the 90th percentile is 22.8× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many payers fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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| 1 | Oscar case rate · outpatient · +4 other terms | 45 | $3.6k | $4.2k | $1.3k | 30% | — | $3.3k – $6.6k |
| 2 | Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient | 39 | $5.8k | $7.9k | $5.3k | 67% | — | $2.1k – $14.6k |
| 3 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 34 | $7.5k | $7.8k | $6.1k | 78% | — | $240 – $33.6k |
| 4 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 19 | $8.8k | $8.1k | $3.6k | 44% | — | $2.6k – $15.6k |
| 5 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms | 16 | $4.8k | $6.1k | $4.7k | 76% | — | $601 – $20.7k |
| 6 | Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · both | 12 | $155 | $155 | — | — | — | $155 – $155 |
| 7 | UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · both · +8 other terms | 12 | $155 | $155 | — | — | — | $155 – $155 |
| 8 | WellCare fee schedule · both | 12 | $155 | $154 | $0 | 0% | — | $153 – $155 |
| 9 | Anthem facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms | 6 | $397 | $10.2k | $12.6k | 124% | — | $257 – $29.3k |
| 10 | Caresource other · outpatient · +2 other terms | 5 | $6.5k | $7.4k | $1.6k | 21% | — | $5.8k – $9.4k |
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