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.
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HB Insertion Indwelling Tunneled Pleural Catheter
Low
$4
Average
$6.1k
Median
$4.5k
High
$45.8k
Each hospital's average Blue Cross Blue Shield rate, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
1234 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 6.6× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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iThe hospitals that file a Blue Cross Blue Shield rate for this code, one row per hospital and set of terms (billing class, payment method, setting). Rates under different terms are never blended, so the terms are shown under each hospital’s name. Figures are the hospital’s averages across its plans.| # | Plans | |||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 12 | $12.4k | $14.0k | $12.3k | 88% | 187 | $1.4k – $39.2k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 4 | $13.7k | $11.6k | $6.5k | 56% | 133 | $2.2k – $23.0k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL other · outpatient | 2 | $4.5k | $4.5k | — | — | 22 | $4.5k – $4.5k |
| 4 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Grayslake, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 7 | $4.6k | $6.1k | $5.8k | 97% | 9–90 | $2.0k – $21.7k |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 7 | $6.9k | $7.0k | $4.0k | 57% | 9–90 | $2.7k – $16.0k |
| 6 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital Woodstock, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 6 | $7.5k | $7.6k | $4.9k | 64% | 8–80 | $3.2k – $23.0k |
| 7 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 6 | $9.5k | $10.0k | $8.1k | 81% | 8–80 | $2.7k – $35.7k |
| 8 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 6 | $2.3k | $3.2k | $3.1k | 96% | 8–80 | $1.0k – $13.7k |
| 9 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 2 | $10.3k | $10.3k | $33 | 0% | 5–50 | $10.2k – $10.3k |
| 10 | Carteret County General Hospital Corporation Morehead City, NC facility · fee schedule · both | 2 | $2.1k | $2.1k | $1.2k | 56% | 4–40 | $903 – $3.2k |
| 11 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL other · outpatient | 4 | $8.0k | $7.1k | $1.6k | 22% | 4–40 | $4.3k – $8.0k |
| 12 | RIDEOUT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Marysville, CA percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 2 | $9.9k | $9.9k | $1.1k | 11% | 4–40 | $8.5k – $11.5k |
| 13 | ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL Albany, NY facility · case rate · outpatient | 10 | $1.7k | $4.0k | $3.1k | 78% | 3–30 | $725 – $8.7k |
| 14 | Lake Charles Memorial Hospital Charles., LA fee schedule · outpatient | 2 | $4.4k | $4.4k | $1.2k | 27% | 3–30 | $3.2k – $5.6k |
| 15 | Missouri Baptist Medical Center Saint Louis, MO percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 2 | $8.5k | $8.5k | $52 | 1% | 3–30 | $8.5k – $8.6k |
| 16 | St. Lukes Hospital of Kansas City City, KS percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges | 21 | $1.8k | $2.4k | $771 | 32% | 3–30 | $1.5k – $3.8k |
| 17 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA other · outpatient | 2 | $3.4k | $3.4k | — | — | 2–20 | $3.4k – $3.4k |
| 18 | Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital Nonprofit Corporation Weston, FL facility · case rate · outpatient | 1 | $6.5k | $6.5k | — | — | 2–20 | $6.5k – $6.5k |
| 19 | GUTHRIE CORTLAND MEDICAL CENTER Cortland, NY facility · other · outpatient | 6 | $7.4k | $6.8k | $2.7k | 40% | 2–20 | $643 – $10.1k |
| 20 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA other · outpatient | 2 | $3.4k | $3.4k | — | — | 2–20 | $3.4k – $3.4k |
| 21 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Grayslake, IL other · outpatient | 2 | $2.8k | $2.8k | — | — | 2–20 | $2.8k – $2.8k |
| 22 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL other · outpatient | 2 | $1.5k | $1.5k | $368 | 25% | 2–20 | $1.1k – $1.8k |
| 23 | PRISMA HEALTH BAPTIST EASLEY HOSPITAL EASLEY, SC fee schedule · both | 4 | $5.9k | $6.9k | $2.7k | 38% | 2–20 | $4.6k – $11.4k |
| 24 | PRISMA HEALTH GREENVILLE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL GREENVILLE, SC fee schedule · both | 4 | $5.9k | $6.9k | $2.7k | 38% | 2–20 | $4.6k – $11.4k |
| 25 | ROBERT PACKER HOSPITAL Sayre, PA facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 2 | $2.4k | $2.4k | $856 | 36% | 2–20 | $1.5k – $3.2k |
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