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 of Chest Tube
Low
$1
Average
$3.4k
Median
$1.6k
High
$842.2k
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $2.2k | $4.3k | $4.4k | 101% | 45–450 | $189 – $14.4k |
| 2 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $3.3k | $23.6k | $28.7k | 122% | 33–330 | $377 – $76.8k |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $1.9k | $3.4k | $4.0k | 118% | 22–220 | $412 – $14.4k |
| 4 | Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital Grand Rapids, MN | $3.0k | $2.6k | $871 | 34% | 11–110 | $408 – $3.8k |
| 5 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $2.4k | $2.4k | $1.1k | 48% | 10–100 | $333 – $5.1k |
| 6 | Range Regional Health Services Hibbing, MN | $3.0k | $2.6k | $887 | 35% | 10–100 | $402 – $3.8k |
| 7 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Elizabethtown, KY | $1.8k | $1.8k | $1.2k | 70% | 8–80 | $551 – $4.9k |
| 8 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Corbin, KY | $3.0k | $2.8k | $1.9k | 68% | 8–80 | $490 – $5.8k |
| 9 | Monument Health Rapid City Hospital Inc City, SD | $2.9k | $2.3k | $1.1k | 49% | 8–80 | $372 – $3.5k |
| 10 | Preston Memorial Hospital Kingwood, WV | $526 | $594 | $240 | 40% | 6–60 | $351 – $1.1k |
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