CPT 32422
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 w/tube insert
Low
$222
Average
$4.6k
Median
$1.7k
High
$33.5k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
31 payers; the 90th percentile is 34.7× 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 | $4.4k | $1.4k | 31% | — | $3.3k – $6.6k |
| 2 | Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient | 39 | $5.8k | $8.0k | $5.4k | 68% | — | $2.1k – $14.6k |
| 3 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms | 35 | $7.4k | $7.7k | $6.1k | 79% | — | $1.7k – $33.6k |
| 4 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms | 21 | $7.6k | $7.5k | $3.9k | 52% | — | $791 – $15.6k |
| 5 | Humana case rate · outpatient · +7 other terms | 21 | $7.1k | $6.9k | $644 | 9% | — | $4.5k – $7.1k |
| 6 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms | 16 | $4.8k | $6.4k | $4.6k | 72% | — | $1.4k – $20.7k |
| 7 | Anthem facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms | 5 | $187 | $1.9k | $3.2k | 169% | — | $187 – $8.3k |
| 8 | Caresource other · outpatient · +2 other terms | 5 | $6.5k | $7.4k | $1.6k | 21% | — | $5.8k – $9.4k |
| 9 | First Health fee schedule · both · +6 other terms | 5 | $150 | $150 | — | — | — | $150 – $150 |
| 10 | Kaiser case rate · outpatient · +4 other terms | 5 | $6.3k | $6.3k | $915 | 15% | — | $5.3k – $7.5k |
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