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
$136
Average
$7.3k
Median
$4.3k
High
$50k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
17 payers; the 90th percentile is 88.6× 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 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 34 | $7.5k | $7.8k | $6.1k | 78% | — | $240 – $33.6k |
| 2 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 19 | $8.8k | $8.1k | $3.6k | 44% | — | $2.6k – $15.6k |
| 3 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 16 | $4.8k | $6.1k | $4.7k | 76% | — | $601 – $20.7k |
| 4 | Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · both | 12 | $155 | $155 | — | — | — | $155 – $155 |
| 5 | UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · both · +4 other terms | 12 | $155 | $155 | — | — | — | $155 – $155 |
| 6 | WellCare fee schedule · both | 12 | $155 | $154 | $0 | 0% | — | $153 – $155 |
| 7 | Anthem facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms | 6 | $397 | $10.2k | $12.6k | 124% | — | $257 – $29.3k |
| 8 | Tricare fee schedule · outpatient | 5 | $50k | $50k | — | — | — | $50k – $50k |
| 9 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 3 | $4.8k | $4.2k | $2.6k | 61% | — | $237 – $7.4k |
| 10 | Molina facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 3 | $15k | $12.0k | $5.9k | 49% | — | $156 – $15k |
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