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
HC TUBE THORACOSTOMY W WATER SEAL
Low
$0
Average
$2.4k
Median
$1.9k
High
$30.7k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $1.4k | $1.2k | $409 | 34% | 30–300 | $520 – $1.6k |
| 2 | Fairview Health Services Wyoming, MN | $912 | $1.0k | $471 | 45% | 20–200 | $548 – $1.8k |
| 3 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $1.0k | $1.2k | $594 | 48% | 15–150 | $648 – $2.1k |
| 4 | Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Inc Milwaukee, WI | $746 | $834 | $309 | 37% | 14–140 | $431 – $1.2k |
| 5 | Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado Lakewood, CO | $1.1k | $1.0k | $289 | 28% | 12–120 | $626 – $1.3k |
| 6 | Delta County Memorial Hospital DELTA, CO | $1.2k | $1.3k | $491 | 39% | 11–110 | $225 – $1.9k |
| 7 | Fairview Health Services Burnsville, MN | $1.5k | $1.5k | $505 | 34% | 10–100 | $1.0k – $2.0k |
| 8 | HealthEast St John's Hospital Maplewood, MN | $1.3k | $1.3k | $255 | 20% | 10–100 | $1.0k – $1.6k |
| 9 | Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado Canon City, CO | $1.4k | $1.4k | $249 | 18% | 8–80 | $1.2k – $1.7k |
| 10 | Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado Pueblo, CO | $893 | $978 | $128 | 13% | 6–60 | $881 – $1.2k |
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