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
$552
Average
$8.4k
Median
$1.3k
High
$35k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
21 payers; the 90th percentile is 40.9× 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 | Blue Cross Blue Shield percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 5 | $34.9k | $34.9k | — | — | — | $34.9k – $34.9k |
| 2 | Caresource percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 5 | $18.6k | $18.6k | — | — | — | $18.6k – $18.6k |
| 3 | Phcs percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 5 | $37.5k | $37.5k | — | — | — | $37.5k – $37.5k |
| 4 | Aetna facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +3 other terms | 4 | $833 | $843 | $247 | 29% | — | $529 – $1.5k |
| 5 | Cigna facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 4 | $1.1k | $1.5k | $701 | 47% | — | $793 – $2.6k |
| 6 | MultiPlan professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 4 | $810 | $653 | $444 | 68% | — | $318 – $1.3k |
| 7 | First Health facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 2 | $1.7k | $1.5k | $589 | 38% | — | $952 – $2.3k |
| 8 | Healthpartners professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges | 2 | $1.1k | $1.1k | $66 | 6% | — | $1.0k – $1.2k |
| 9 | Highmark facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 2 | $714 | $723 | $135 | 19% | — | $569 – $934 |
| 10 | Humana professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 2 | $283 | $283 | $18 | 6% | — | $265 – $301 |
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