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 Thoracentesis Needle/Cath Pleura W/O Imaging
Low
$1
Average
$2.0k
Median
$1.2k
High
$464.4k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $1.8k | $1.8k | $908 | 50% | 27–270 | $190 – $3.6k |
| 2 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $1.0k | $1.2k | $585 | 48% | 25–250 | $367 – $2.9k |
| 3 | Columbus Regional Healthcare System, Inc Whiteville, NC | $1.0k | $976 | $416 | 43% | 8–80 | $339 – $1.5k |
| 4 | Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. Whitesburg, KY | $1.1k | $1.2k | $684 | 58% | 8–80 | $241 – $2.8k |
| 5 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $1.3k | $1.3k | $436 | 34% | 6–60 | $522 – $1.9k |
| 6 | Lake Regional Health System Osage Beach, MO | $638 | $647 | $13 | 2% | 6–60 | $638 – $665 |
| 7 | Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. Hazard, KY | $1.2k | $1.3k | $798 | 63% | 6–60 | $369 – $3.0k |
| 8 | Robert Packer Hospital Sayre, PA | $414 | $827 | $639 | 77% | 5–50 | $51 – $1.8k |
| 9 | Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital Grand Rapids, MN | $1.8k | $1.5k | $435 | 28% | 4–40 | $626 – $2.2k |
| 10 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $481 | $493 | $20 | 4% | 4–40 | $481 – $527 |
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