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
$150
Average
$4.7k
Median
$2.1k
High
$20.5k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
18 payers; the 90th percentile is 33.7× 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 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 35 | $7.4k | $7.7k | $6.1k | 79% | — | $1.7k – $33.6k |
| 2 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 21 | $7.6k | $7.5k | $3.9k | 52% | — | $791 – $15.6k |
| 3 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 16 | $4.8k | $6.4k | $4.6k | 72% | — | $1.4k – $20.7k |
| 4 | Anthem facility · fee schedule · outpatient | 5 | $187 | $1.9k | $3.2k | 169% | — | $187 – $8.3k |
| 5 | First Health fee schedule · both | 5 | $150 | $150 | — | — | — | $150 – $150 |
| 6 | Molina facility · fee schedule · outpatient | 5 | $499 | $4.5k | $6.7k | 150% | — | $178 – $15k |
| 7 | Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 5 | $50k | $50k | — | — | — | $50k – $50k |
| 8 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 3 | $5.5k | $3.7k | $2.9k | 80% | — | $2 – $8.3k |
| 9 | Oscar fee schedule · outpatient | 3 | $4.4k | $4.3k | $134 | 3% | — | $4.1k – $4.4k |
| 10 | UnitedHealthcare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 3 | $805 | $851 | $261 | 31% | — | $715 – $1.8k |
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