CPT 32036
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
Thoracostomy w/flap drainage
Low
$642
Average
$3.1k
Median
$2.4k
High
$11.7k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
54 payers; the 90th percentile is 9.9× 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 | UnitedHealthcare case rate · outpatient · +24 other terms | 368 | $4.6k | $6.3k | $4.9k | 77% | — | $1 – $30k |
| 2 | Cigna case rate · outpatient · +19 other terms | 221 | $6.8k | $11.9k | $8.5k | 71% | — | $1 – $40.7k |
| 3 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms | 179 | $7.1k | $9.4k | $7.4k | 79% | — | $0 – $33.7k |
| 4 | Aetna case rate · outpatient · +24 other terms | 166 | $4.1k | $5.8k | $4.0k | 69% | — | $678 – $18.7k |
| 5 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms | 104 | $761 | $2.3k | $2.0k | 88% | — | $196 – $8.3k |
| 6 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms | 88 | $968 | $2.7k | $3.9k | 145% | — | $605 – $23.1k |
| 7 | Molina case rate · outpatient · +13 other terms | 84 | $2.6k | $4.1k | $4.4k | 108% | — | $264 – $20.2k |
| 8 | Oscar case rate · outpatient · +12 other terms | 57 | $3.6k | $4.5k | $1.4k | 32% | — | $3.3k – $7.3k |
| 9 | Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient | 53 | $5.8k | $8.1k | $5.1k | 62% | — | $2.1k – $14.6k |
| 10 | WellCare facility · case rate · outpatient · +11 other terms | 45 | $12.6k | $10.0k | $6.8k | 68% | — | $690 – $19.0k |
| 11 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms | 37 | $746 | $747 | $193 | 26% | — | $605 – $1.9k |
| 12 | Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms | 33 | $948 | $944 | $8 | 1% | — | $929 – $948 |
| 13 | Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 31 | $1.2k | $1.3k | $532 | 41% | — | $629 – $3.3k |
| 14 | Medica case rate · outpatient · +7 other terms | 25 | $2.3k | $1.9k | $596 | 32% | — | $671 – $2.9k |
| 15 | Caresource facility · case rate · outpatient · +10 other terms | 21 | $2.9k | $3.8k | $4.4k | 115% | — | $690 – $21.5k |
| 16 | Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 21 | $761 | $754 | $8 | 1% | — | $737 – $761 |
| 17 | Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 21 | $614 | $649 | $448 | 69% | — | $122 – $1.9k |
| 18 | Ambetter facility · case rate · outpatient · +9 other terms | 18 | $30.5k | $25.0k | $12.2k | 49% | — | $897 – $34.6k |
| 19 | Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 18 | $746 | $731 | $20 | 3% | — | $677 – $761 |
| 20 | Optum facility · case rate · outpatient · +7 other terms | 18 | $3.0k | $5.3k | $4.6k | 86% | — | $748 – $14.7k |
| 21 | Aetna Better Health professional · fee schedule · both · +8 other terms | 13 | $594 | $622 | $125 | 20% | — | $445 – $816 |
| 22 | Highmark fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms | 13 | $940 | $1.0k | $583 | 57% | — | $441 – $6.6k |
| 23 | MultiPlan fee schedule · both · +12 other terms | 13 | $1.4k | $1.4k | $438 | 32% | — | $566 – $2.5k |
| 24 | Wellmark fee schedule · both · +7 other terms | 13 | $1.3k | $1.3k | $377 | 29% | — | $699 – $1.7k |
| 25 | Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · both · +5 other terms | 12 | $588 | $588 | — | — | — | $588 – $588 |
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