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
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Low
$43
Average
$6.4k
Median
$473
High
$37.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | El Paso Children's Hospital El Paso, TX | $679 | $611 | $160 | 26% | 14–32 | $177 – $708 |
| 2 | UPMC Washington Washington, PA | $967 | $968 | $273 | 28% | — | $503 – $1.6k |
| 3 | Deaconess Hospital, Inc Newburgh, IN | $210 | $212 | $56 | 27% | — | $70 – $308 |
| 4 | Northside Hospital, Inc. Lawrenceville, GA | $35k | $37.0k | $10.5k | 28% | — | $18.6k – $50k |
| 5 | Northside Hospital, Inc. Atlanta, GA | $32.4k | $30.6k | $6.3k | 21% | — | $18.6k – $37.5k |
| 6 | AnMed Health Cannon Pickens, SC | $110 | $146 | $156 | 107% | — | $7 – $582 |
| 7 | Fairfield Medical Center Lancaster, OH | $26.1k | $27.9k | $3.2k | 12% | — | $25.9k – $33.5k |
| 8 | Childrens Hospital at Mission - Cerner 27700 Medical Center Rd | $1.4k | $1.5k | $325 | 22% | — | $889 – $2.0k |
| 9 | Deaconess Health System Gibson General Hospital Princeton, IN | $210 | $212 | $65 | 31% | — | $70 – $315 |
| 10 | Physicians Medical Center_F HOUMA, LA | $1.4k | $1.4k | $64 | 5% | — | $1.4k – $1.5k |
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