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
Insert Chest Tube
Low
$216
Average
$1.9k
Median
$1.6k
High
$16.1k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
70 payers; the 90th percentile is 3.2× 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 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms | 153 | $1.1k | $1.3k | $1.8k | 139% | 6–60 | $19 – $11.5k |
| 2 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +40 other terms | 550 | $1.7k | $2.4k | $2.4k | 100% | 4–40 | $1 – $26.6k |
| 3 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms | 353 | $1.6k | $1.4k | $951 | 68% | 4–40 | $1 – $12.8k |
| 4 | UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +40 other terms | 573 | $1.6k | $2.0k | $3.2k | 159% | 3–30 | $1 – $45.7k |
| 5 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms | 469 | $1.8k | $3.0k | $2.7k | 89% | 2–20 | $1 – $33.8k |
| 6 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms | 113 | $1.7k | $2.2k | $2.2k | 99% | 2–20 | $32 – $11.7k |
| 7 | Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +6 other terms | 4 | $1.5k | $1.6k | $280 | 17% | 2–20 | $1.3k – $1.9k |
| 8 | Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms | 205 | $1.4k | $1.4k | $930 | 68% | 1–10 | $1 – $5.2k |
| 9 | First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms | 54 | $2.3k | $2.8k | $1.8k | 64% | 1–10 | $146 – $7.6k |
| 10 | Cigna case rate · outpatient · +38 other terms | 354 | $2.9k | $4.7k | $6.3k | 133% | — | $1 – $40.7k |
| 11 | WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms | 175 | $1.6k | $1.6k | $603 | 37% | — | $56 – $4.4k |
| 12 | Oscar case rate · outpatient · +24 other terms | 129 | $3.0k | $2.7k | $978 | 36% | — | $1.4k – $7.5k |
| 13 | MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms | 127 | $2.4k | $2.4k | $1.1k | 46% | — | $106 – $7.4k |
| 14 | Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms | 96 | $2.7k | $2.6k | $1.2k | 45% | — | $149 – $8.5k |
| 15 | Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms | 94 | $1.5k | $1.5k | $704 | 47% | — | $133 – $5.1k |
| 16 | Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms | 83 | $1.8k | $2.8k | $2.3k | 82% | — | $122 – $12.9k |
| 17 | Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms | 66 | $1.3k | $1.3k | $1.1k | 86% | — | $1 – $6k |
| 18 | Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms | 64 | $1.6k | $1.8k | $1.5k | 82% | — | $143 – $7.0k |
| 19 | Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms | 59 | $1.4k | $1.4k | $1.3k | 95% | — | $131 – $5.8k |
| 20 | Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +5 other terms | 58 | $2.2k | $1.9k | $488 | 26% | — | $1.2k – $3.0k |
| 21 | Medicare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms | 52 | $1.6k | $1.7k | $1.8k | 106% | — | $134 – $22k |
| 22 | Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms | 51 | $225 | $175 | $111 | 63% | — | $10 – $481 |
| 23 | Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms | 48 | $1.4k | $1.5k | $1.0k | 70% | — | $131 – $9.2k |
| 24 | Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms | 46 | $687 | $778 | $515 | 66% | — | $57 – $2.7k |
| 25 | Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms | 39 | $452 | $877 | $1.0k | 116% | — | $120 – $5.6k |
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