Pleural fluid drainage with imaging guidance

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.

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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

HB Thoracentesis Needle/Cath Pleura W/Imaging

Payers reporting CPT 32555

72 payers file a negotiated rate for this code. Each is shown once, under the terms the most hospitals file it under; rates under different terms (billing class, payment method, setting) are never blended, so open a payer to see them all. Figures are hospital-level averages; the median is across hospitals.

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +41 other terms	665	$711.00	$1,270	$1.00 – $18,169
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +41 other terms	609	$717.38	$1,382	$1.00 – $21,319
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	466	$949.99	$1,539	$0.01 – $18,025
4	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	449	$621.34	$683.63	$1.00 – $8,334
5	Cigna case rate · outpatient · +38 other terms	359	$3,164	$5,053	$0.62 – $40,673
6	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	263	$519.39	$540.25	$1.00 – $6,459
7	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	211	$661.67	$618.47	$39.36 – $4,321
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +38 other terms	165	$588.03	$600.81	$14.50 – $7,000
9	Oscar case rate · outpatient · +24 other terms	129	$3,008	$2,477	$966.73 – $7,454
10	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	125	$1,576	$1,583	$68.56 – $5,359
11	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	113	$912.65	$1,015	$17.00 – $4,550
12	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	108	$1,084	$1,008	$49.36 – $2,390
13	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	95	$630.16	$871.85	$51.84 – $10,573
14	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	92	$598.84	$660.16	$56.20 – $4,935
15	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	90	$282.47	$336.40	$81.84 – $2,241
16	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	82	$612.69	$886.35	$1.05 – $4,321
17	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	74	$960.24	$995.83	$93.14 – $2,799
18	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	64	$586.71	$942.99	$92.33 – $3,925
19	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	63	$1,668	$1,881	$111.50 – $7,246
20	Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +7 other terms	58	$2,190	$1,854	$1,170 – $2,963
21	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	49	$464.34	$532.10	$17.37 – $1,835
22	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	47	$527.06	$663.39	$92.33 – $3,925
23	Medicare other · both · +22 other terms	46	$663.69	$735.88	$122.34 – $2,351
24	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	43	$609.02	$544.02	$97.85 – $668.93
25	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	41	$306.82	$283.35	$43.29 – $995.98

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