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
Low
$73
Average
$4.6k
Median
$3.4k
High
$22.9k
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Showing only prices reported under the per diem methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 114 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 27.1× 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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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $218 | $218 | $11 | 5% | 44 | $207 – $229 |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $215 | $215 | $31 | 14% | 2–20 | $184 – $245 |
| 3 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $232 | $232 | $12 | 5% | 2–20 | $220 – $244 |
| 4 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $242 | $242 | $13 | 5% | 2–20 | $229 – $255 |
| 5 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $232 | $232 | $12 | 5% | 2–20 | $220 – $244 |
| 6 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $232 | $232 | $12 | 5% | 2–20 | $220 – $244 |
| 7 | Mercy Hospital Rogers dba Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas Vista, AR | $1.8k | $2.3k | $594 | 26% | 1–10 | $1.8k – $3.1k |
| 8 | Deaconess Hospital, Inc Newburgh, IN | $3.4k | $3.4k | — | — | — | $3.4k – $3.4k |
| 9 | Methodist Hospital Hill Country Fredericksburg, TX | $365 | $365 | — | — | — | $365 – $365 |
| 10 | Rex Hospital, Inc. Raleigh, NC | $7.0k | $7.0k | — | — | — | $7.0k – $7.0k |
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