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 PERQ DRAINAGE PLEURA INSERT CATH W/O IMAGING
Based on 350–3,014 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$25
Average
$2.6k
Median
$2.3k
High
$31.4k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $2.8k | $2.7k | $532 | 19% | 54 | $1.2k – $3.6k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $1.9k | $3.7k | $3.8k | 103% | 52–520 | $141 – $12.8k |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $3.2k | $4.3k | $3.0k | 71% | 49–490 | $698 – $12.8k |
| 4 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $5.1k | $14.9k | $16.4k | 110% | 37–370 | $810 – $46.8k |
| 5 | Guthrie Cortland Medical Center Cortland, NY | $2.5k | $2.5k | $1.8k | 73% | 12–120 | $112 – $7.2k |
| 6 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $747 | $1.0k | $649 | 62% | 10–100 | $369 – $4.1k |
| 7 | Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte, NC | $586 | $656 | $443 | 68% | 10–100 | $75 – $2.3k |
| 8 | Atrium Health Hospitals Inc Shelby, NC | $605 | $643 | $421 | 66% | 10–100 | $99 – $1.9k |
| 9 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $858 | $1.1k | $671 | 59% | 10–100 | $349 – $4.1k |
| 10 | High Point Regional Health High Point, NC | $825 | $1.0k | $1.0k | 101% | 8–80 | $294 – $7.9k |
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