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 THORACENTESIS NEEDLE/CATH PLEURA W/O IMAGING
Based on 519–4,542 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$1
Average
$1.6k
Median
$1.1k
High
$157.7k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $2.0k | $2.0k | $364 | 18% | 54 | $1.2k – $2.6k |
| 2 | Baystate Medical Center Springfield, MA | $137 | $137 | — | — | 46–460 | $137 – $137 |
| 3 | Robert Packer Hospital Sayre, PA | $679 | $1.1k | $1.1k | 93% | 30–300 | $51 – $4.4k |
| 4 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $1.8k | $1.8k | $912 | 51% | 28–280 | $190 – $3.6k |
| 5 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $1.0k | $1.2k | $602 | 51% | 28–280 | $361 – $2.9k |
| 6 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $640 | $860 | $647 | 75% | 24–240 | $38 – $2.9k |
| 7 | Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital SUMTER, SC | $616 | $882 | $670 | 76% | 19–28 | $188 – $2.9k |
| 8 | Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. Hazard, KY | $502 | $994 | $737 | 74% | 18–180 | $369 – $3.0k |
| 9 | Lake Regional Health System Osage Beach, MO | $673 | $1.2k | $900 | 78% | 17–170 | $553 – $3.1k |
| 10 | Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. Whitesburg, KY | $611 | $907 | $690 | 76% | 16–160 | $241 – $2.8k |
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