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
$132
Average
$4.2k
Median
$1.1k
High
$33.5k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
24 payers; the 90th percentile is 49.1× 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 | Cigna professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +7 other terms | 9 | $265 | $255 | $35 | 14% | — | $172 – $318 |
| 2 | Aetna professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +5 other terms | 8 | $309 | $318 | $16 | 5% | — | $308 – $348 |
| 3 | UnitedHealthcare professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +6 other terms | 7 | $88 | $123 | $67 | 54% | — | $88 – $273 |
| 4 | Blue Cross Blue Shield percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +4 other terms | 6 | $34.9k | $14.8k | $16.9k | 114% | — | $326 – $34.9k |
| 5 | First Health professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +4 other terms | 6 | $309 | $323 | $33 | 10% | — | $309 – $397 |
| 6 | Humana professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 6 | $304 | $265 | $92 | 35% | — | $142 – $353 |
| 7 | Caresource percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 5 | $18.6k | $18.6k | — | — | — | $18.6k – $18.6k |
| 8 | MultiPlan professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +4 other terms | 5 | $291 | $257 | $63 | 25% | — | $170 – $318 |
| 9 | Phcs percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +5 other terms | 5 | $37.5k | $37.5k | — | — | — | $37.5k – $37.5k |
| 10 | Ambetter professional · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 3 | $129 | $99 | $110 | 111% | — | $7 – $252 |
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