CPT 32098
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
Thoracotomy W/Biopsy of Pleura
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Low
$444
Average
$4.9k
Median
$1.8k
High
$46.8k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $51.2k | $46.8k | $21.2k | 45% | 26–260 | $13.2k – $70.6k |
| 2 | St Joseph Regional Health Network Reading, PA | $6.4k | $6.9k | $2.0k | 29% | — | $3.2k – $9.8k |
| 3 | Deaconess Hospital, Inc Newburgh, IN | $1.9k | $1.8k | $576 | 32% | — | $1000 – $2.5k |
| 4 | Holy Cross Hospital-Silver Spring Silver Spring, MD | $1.7k | $1.7k | $21 | 1% | — | $834 – $1.7k |
| 5 | Northside Hospital, Inc. Lawrenceville, GA | $35k | $37.0k | $10.5k | 28% | — | $18.6k – $50k |
| 6 | Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital Shelbyville, TN | $1.5k | $1.6k | $257 | 16% | — | $736 – $2.1k |
| 7 | Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN | $1.5k | $1.6k | $257 | 16% | — | $736 – $2.1k |
| 8 | Thedacare Regional Medical Center-Appleton Inc. Appleton, WI | $4.0k | $3.7k | $708 | 19% | — | $1.9k – $4.6k |
| 9 | Northside Hospital, Inc. Atlanta, GA | $32.4k | $30.6k | $6.3k | 21% | — | $18.6k – $37.5k |
| 10 | Albany General Hospital Albany, OR | $1.2k | $1.2k | $157 | 13% | — | $1.0k – $1.4k |
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