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
THORACENTESIS PROCEDURE
Low
$256
Average
$4.8k
Median
$2.3k
High
$33.5k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
28 payers; the 90th percentile is 24.7× 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 | Oscar case rate · outpatient · +5 other terms | 45 | $3.6k | $4.5k | $1.4k | 31% | — | $3.3k – $6.6k |
| 2 | Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient | 39 | $5.8k | $7.8k | $5.4k | 68% | — | $2.1k – $14.6k |
| 3 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms | 35 | $7.4k | $7.7k | $6.1k | 79% | — | $1.7k – $33.6k |
| 4 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms | 27 | $4.0k | $5.5k | $4.6k | 83% | — | $24 – $15.6k |
| 5 | Humana case rate · outpatient · +9 other terms | 21 | $7.1k | $6.9k | $644 | 9% | — | $4.5k – $7.1k |
| 6 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms | 16 | $4.8k | $6.4k | $4.6k | 72% | — | $1.4k – $20.7k |
| 7 | Anthem case rate · outpatient · +2 other terms | 7 | $1.5k | $1.7k | $353 | 20% | — | $1.5k – $2.6k |
| 8 | UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms | 7 | $383 | $468 | $535 | 114% | — | $2 – $2.6k |
| 9 | Medica fee schedule · inpatient · +2 other terms | 6 | $584 | $550 | $103 | 19% | — | $105 – $600 |
| 10 | MultiPlan fee schedule · inpatient · +7 other terms | 6 | $613 | $520 | $174 | 33% | — | $136 – $613 |
| 11 | Caresource other · outpatient · +2 other terms | 5 | $6.5k | $7.4k | $1.6k | 21% | — | $5.8k – $9.4k |
| 12 | First Health fee schedule · both · +5 other terms | 5 | $94 | $94 | — | — | — | $94 – $94 |
| 13 | Kaiser case rate · outpatient · +6 other terms | 5 | $6.3k | $6.3k | $915 | 15% | — | $5.3k – $7.5k |
| 14 | Molina facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 5 | $527 | $4.5k | $6.7k | 149% | — | $139 – $15k |
| 15 | Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 5 | $50k | $50k | — | — | — | $50k – $50k |
| 16 | Phcs fee schedule · inpatient · +9 other terms | 4 | $613 | $613 | — | — | — | $613 – $613 |
| 17 | Medcost professional · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 3 | $274 | $256 | $240 | 94% | — | $19 – $529 |
| 18 | Ambetter case rate · outpatient · +6 other terms | 2 | $10.1k | $10.1k | — | — | — | $10.1k – $10.1k |
| 19 | Bcbs Ca facility · other · outpatient · +4 other terms | 2 | $1.5k | $1.5k | $399 | 26% | — | $1.1k – $2.8k |
| 20 | Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient | 2 | $15k | $15k | — | — | — | $15k – $15k |
| 21 | Wellmark fee schedule · inpatient | 2 | $366 | $366 | $9 | 3% | — | $356 – $375 |
| 22 | Bcbs Tx percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 1 | $359 | $359 | $82 | 23% | — | $256 – $478 |
| 23 | Excellus facility · fee schedule · outpatient | 1 | $1.0k | $1.0k | — | — | — | $1.0k – $1.0k |
| 24 | Highmark other · both · +1 other terms | 1 | $76 | $76 | — | — | — | $76 – $76 |
| 25 | Magellan facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 1 | $1.6k | $1.6k | $279 | 17% | — | $1.4k – $2.0k |
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