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
$232
Average
$5.0k
Median
$1.3k
High
$25k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
14 payers; the 90th percentile is 40.7× 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 | Humana other · outpatient · +1 other terms | 10 | $969 | $969 | — | — | — | $969 – $969 |
| 2 | Oscar other · both · +1 other terms | 9 | $1k | $1k | — | — | — | $1k – $1k |
| 3 | Blue Cross Blue Shield other · outpatient · +1 other terms | 5 | $24.2k | $24.2k | $7.2k | 30% | — | $14.0k – $33.3k |
| 4 | Caresource other · outpatient | 5 | $6.5k | $7.4k | $1.6k | 21% | — | $5.8k – $9.4k |
| 5 | Cigna other · outpatient · +1 other terms | 5 | $7.6k | $7.8k | $533 | 7% | — | $7.2k – $8.7k |
| 6 | Aetna facility · other · outpatient | 3 | $946 | $1.3k | $584 | 44% | — | $393 – $2.5k |
| 7 | Bcbs Ca facility · other · outpatient | 2 | $1.6k | $1.7k | $750 | 43% | — | $828 – $4.1k |
| 8 | Kaiser facility · other · outpatient | 2 | $232 | $232 | — | — | — | $232 – $232 |
| 9 | Devoted facility · other · outpatient | 1 | $666 | $666 | — | — | — | $666 – $666 |
| 10 | First Health facility · other · outpatient | 1 | $757 | $757 | $42 | 6% | — | $715 – $799 |
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