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
$10
Average
$2.7k
Median
$2.0k
High
$27.1k
Each hospital's average Blue Cross Blue Shield rate, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
1357 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 9.0× 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 | 11 | $1.6k | $3.5k | $4.5k | 129% | 16–160 | $189 – $14.4k |
| 2 | Baystate Medical Center Springfield, MA percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges | 3 | $776 | $776 | — | — | 9–90 | $776 – $776 |
| 3 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 6 | $3.3k | $11.3k | $18.8k | 166% | 8–80 | $377 – $76.8k |
| 4 | Capital Health System Inc Browns Mills, NJ percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 4 | $1.2k | $1.2k | $84 | 7% | 4–40 | $1.0k – $1.2k |
| 5 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 4 | $1.2k | $2.8k | $3.3k | 120% | 4–40 | $792 – $14.4k |
| 6 | Baystate Medical Center Springfield, MA fee schedule · both | 1 | $776 | $776 | — | — | 3–30 | $776 – $776 |
| 7 | Novant Health Matthews Medical Center LLC Matthews, NC percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 3 | $1.5k | $1.1k | $519 | 48% | 3–30 | $352 – $1.5k |
| 8 | AnMed Health Anderson, SC facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 1 | $855 | $855 | — | — | 2–20 | $855 – $855 |
| 9 | Carle BroMenn Medical Center Normal, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 2 | $1.1k | $1.1k | $4 | 0% | 2–20 | $1.1k – $1.1k |
| 10 | Carteret County General Hospital Corporation Morehead City, NC facility · fee schedule · both | 1 | $113 | $113 | — | — | 2–20 | $113 – $113 |
| 11 | Covenant Medical Center Inc Saginaw, MI professional · other · both | 1 | $1.6k | $1.6k | — | — | 2–20 | $1.6k – $1.6k |
| 12 | GLENS FALLS HOSPITAL INC Falls, NY facility · case rate · outpatient | 11 | $2.7k | $3.2k | $1.6k | 49% | 2–20 | $733 – $5.5k |
| 13 | Inspira Medical Center Mannington Salem, NJ percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 1 | $2.9k | $2.9k | $189 | 7% | 2–20 | $2.6k – $3.3k |
| 14 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL other · outpatient | 2 | $1.7k | $1.7k | — | — | 2–20 | $1.7k – $1.7k |
| 15 | Reynolds Memorial Hospital, Inc. Glen Dale, WV facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 1 | $5.2k | $5.2k | $84 | 2% | 2–20 | $5.2k – $5.3k |
| 16 | Saline Memorial Hospital Benton, AR fee schedule · both | 4 | $1.7k | $1.6k | $77 | 5% | 2–20 | $1.5k – $1.7k |
| 17 | Betsy Johnson Hospital Dunn, NC facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 1 | $3.1k | $3.1k | — | — | 1–10 | $3.1k – $3.1k |
| 18 | Cape Fear Valley - Bladen County Hospital Elizabethtown, NC facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 1 | $1.9k | $1.9k | — | — | 1–10 | $1.9k – $1.9k |
| 19 | Cape Fear Valley - Hoke Hospital Raeford, NC facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 1 | $1.7k | $1.7k | — | — | 1–10 | $1.7k – $1.7k |
| 20 | FHN Memorial Hospital Freeport, IL percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges | 1 | $1.5k | $1.5k | — | — | 1–10 | $1.5k – $1.5k |
| 21 | FHN Memorial Hospital Freeport, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 1 | $834 | $834 | $264 | 32% | 1–10 | $570 – $1.1k |
| 22 | GLENS FALLS HOSPITAL INC Falls, NY facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 2 | $1.6k | $1.6k | $132 | 8% | 1–10 | $1.5k – $1.7k |
| 23 | Lake Regional Health System Osage Beach, MO fee schedule · both | 4 | $3.0k | $2.7k | $580 | 22% | 1–10 | $1.7k – $3.1k |
| 24 | METHODIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MEMPHIS, TN fee schedule · both | 2 | $793 | $782 | $15 | 2% | 1–10 | $761 – $793 |
| 25 | METHODIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MEMPHIS, TN fee schedule · outpatient | 2 | $793 | $782 | $15 | 2% | 1–10 | $761 – $793 |
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