CPT 32036

Open drainage of chest empyema

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.

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Provider: anthropic
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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

Thoracostomy w/flap drainage

Payer pricing summary

Low

$196

Average

$1.6k

Median

$1.1k

High

$7.3k

Payer rate distribution

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All methodologies Case rate 45 Fee schedule 49 Per diem 5 Percent of billed charges 28 Other 20

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	210	$2.9k	$4.2k	$6.1k	145%	—	$130 – $36.8k
2	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	179	$7.1k	$9.4k	$7.4k	79%	—	$0 – $33.7k
3	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	151	$1.6k	$4.7k	$5.6k	120%	—	$79 – $33.6k
4	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	114	$3.0k	$5.4k	$5.3k	98%	—	$0 – $20.7k
5	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	104	$761	$2.3k	$2.0k	88%	—	$196 – $8.3k
6	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	88	$968	$2.7k	$3.9k	145%	—	$605 – $23.1k
7	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	37	$746	$747	$193	26%	—	$605 – $1.9k
8	Molina professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	37	$614	$627	$396	63%	—	$122 – $1.1k
9	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	31	$1.2k	$1.3k	$532	41%	—	$629 – $3.3k
10	WellCare fee schedule · both · +6 other terms	26	$688	$792	$208	26%	—	$582 – $1.3k
11	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	21	$761	$754	$8	1%	—	$737 – $761
12	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient	21	$614	$649	$448	69%	—	$122 – $1.9k
13	Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	18	$746	$731	$20	3%	—	$677 – $761
14	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	15	$1.4k	$1.3k	$409	32%	—	$459 – $2.0k
15	Aetna Better Health professional · fee schedule · both · +6 other terms	13	$594	$622	$125	20%	—	$445 – $816
16	Highmark fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	13	$940	$1.0k	$583	57%	—	$441 – $6.6k
17	MultiPlan fee schedule · both · +3 other terms	13	$1.4k	$1.4k	$438	32%	—	$566 – $2.5k
18	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	13	$552	$1.1k	$1.3k	118%	—	$1 – $4.4k
19	Wellmark fee schedule · both · +1 other terms	13	$1.3k	$1.3k	$377	29%	—	$699 – $1.7k
20	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	12	$1.4k	$2.2k	$3.4k	155%	—	$0 – $13.4k
21	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · both · +2 other terms	12	$588	$588	—	—	—	$588 – $588
22	Bcbs Mn fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	12	$3.6k	$4.5k	$2.8k	63%	—	$1.3k – $15.1k
23	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · both · +1 other terms	12	$709	$712	$10	1%	—	$709 – $744
24	Bcbs Nj fee schedule · outpatient	11	$474	$601	$235	39%	—	$421 – $1.1k
25	Caresource facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	11	$1.4k	$1.2k	$268	22%	—	$754 – $1.5k

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