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/IMAGING
Low
$0
Average
$1.2k
Median
$808
High
$24.4k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fairview Health Services Burnsville, MN | $849 | $1.1k | $594 | 53% | 299–587 | $221 – $2.6k |
| 2 | HealthEast St John's Hospital Maplewood, MN | $625 | $673 | $158 | 23% | 211–553 | $72 – $2.9k |
| 3 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $663 | $973 | $509 | 52% | 193–787 | $72 – $2.8k |
| 4 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $1.1k | $1.1k | — | — | 192 | $220 – $4.8k |
| 5 | John Muir Health Walnut Creek, CA | $886 | $1.0k | $955 | 92% | 178–241 | $92 – $17.8k |
| 6 | Covenant Medical Center Inc Saginaw, MI | $606 | $655 | $85 | 13% | 152–170 | $83 – $2.7k |
| 7 | St Luke's Nampa Medical Center, LTD Nampa, ID | $1.2k | $2.0k | $1.7k | 88% | 145–154 | $666 – $4.9k |
| 8 | HealthEast Woodwinds Hospital Woodbury, MN | $663 | $733 | $203 | 28% | 144–522 | $221 – $2.6k |
| 9 | Oneida Health ONEIDA, NY | $647 | $723 | $295 | 41% | 139–391 | $38 – $2.0k |
| 10 | Lowell General Hospital Lowell, MA | $1.3k | $1.3k | — | — | 131–203 | $455 – $1.8k |
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