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
HB Insertion Indwelling Tunneled Pleural Catheter
Based on 2,819–9,290 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$1
Average
$5.1k
Median
$4.6k
High
$48.8k
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| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $9.4k | $11.3k | $7.8k | 69% | 1,338 | $207 – $30.5k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $12.4k | $15.5k | $11.1k | 72% | 572 | $1.4k – $39.2k |
| 3 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $5.5k | $5.4k | $1.1k | 21% | 54 | $1.2k – $7.1k |
| 4 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $4.2k | $6.1k | $4.7k | 77% | 41–410 | $184 – $16.0k |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $14.0k | $20.7k | $17.6k | 85% | 41–410 | $220 – $63.8k |
| 6 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $4.9k | $6.0k | $4.2k | 70% | 37–370 | $229 – $13.7k |
| 7 | Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases New York, NY | $1.3k | $2.8k | $3.4k | 122% | 32–68 | $202 – $14.8k |
| 8 | Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases Harrison, NY | $1.2k | $2.7k | $3.3k | 123% | 32–68 | $202 – $14.8k |
| 9 | Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases Basking Ridge, NJ | $1.6k | $3.5k | $3.2k | 92% | 31–58 | $222 – $13.3k |
| 10 | Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases Middletown, NJ | $1.6k | $3.6k | $3.3k | 91% | 31–58 | $222 – $13.3k |
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