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
Low
$333
Average
$1.1k
Median
$1.0k
High
$2.5k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
69 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 · +35 other terms | 153 | $593 | $622 | $885 | 142% | 12–120 | $15 – $6.3k |
| 2 | UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +39 other terms | 623 | $690 | $1.1k | $1.3k | 125% | 11–110 | $1 – $18.2k |
| 3 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms | 424 | $619 | $668 | $676 | 101% | 7–70 | $1 – $8.3k |
| 4 | Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms | 252 | $470 | $477 | $377 | 79% | 3–30 | $1 – $3.1k |
| 5 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms | 447 | $958 | $1.5k | $1.7k | 115% | 2–20 | $0 – $18.0k |
| 6 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms | 114 | $815 | $967 | $894 | 92% | 2–20 | $1 – $4.5k |
| 7 | Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms | 70 | $569 | $746 | $636 | 85% | 2–20 | $1 – $3.2k |
| 8 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +41 other terms | 576 | $704 | $1.3k | $1.7k | 138% | 1–10 | $1 – $21.3k |
| 9 | First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms | 60 | $1.2k | $1.6k | $1.6k | 104% | 1–10 | $94 – $7.2k |
| 10 | Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +6 other terms | 3 | $1.3k | $1.2k | $346 | 28% | 1–10 | $796 – $1.6k |
| 11 | Bcbs Mt fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 1 | $1.4k | $1.4k | — | — | 1–10 | $1.4k – $1.4k |
| 12 | Cigna case rate · outpatient · +36 other terms | 334 | $3.0k | $4.9k | $6.5k | 133% | — | $1 – $40.7k |
| 13 | WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms | 199 | $640 | $649 | $453 | 70% | — | $34 – $4.3k |
| 14 | Oscar case rate · outpatient · +24 other terms | 129 | $3.0k | $2.4k | $1.0k | 44% | — | $967 – $7.5k |
| 15 | MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms | 124 | $1.1k | $1.2k | $629 | 52% | — | $58 – $4.0k |
| 16 | Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms | 104 | $1.1k | $1.0k | $513 | 49% | — | $39 – $2.4k |
| 17 | Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms | 86 | $282 | $325 | $207 | 64% | — | $67 – $2.2k |
| 18 | Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms | 83 | $593 | $637 | $505 | 79% | — | $42 – $4.9k |
| 19 | Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms | 81 | $614 | $845 | $610 | 72% | — | $1 – $4.3k |
| 20 | Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms | 76 | $627 | $829 | $824 | 99% | — | $77 – $5.1k |
| 21 | Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms | 65 | $900 | $910 | $604 | 66% | — | $74 – $2.8k |
| 22 | Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +5 other terms | 60 | $2.2k | $1.9k | $497 | 27% | — | $1.2k – $3.1k |
| 23 | Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms | 44 | $425 | $487 | $344 | 71% | — | $62 – $1.8k |
| 24 | Medicare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms | 43 | $646 | $965 | $2.0k | 211% | — | $36 – $22k |
| 25 | Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms | 41 | $609 | $511 | $201 | 39% | — | $79 – $848 |
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