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
INS CATH PLEURAL WO IMAG
Low
$14
Average
$2.1k
Median
$2.0k
High
$21.1k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dignity Health Folsom, CA | $2.5k | $2.9k | $2.5k | 88% | 4–40 | $106 – $7.9k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $141 | $141 | — | — | 2–20 | $141 – $141 |
| 3 | Scotland Memorial Hospital Inc. Laurinburg, NC | $501 | $501 | — | — | 2–20 | $501 – $501 |
| 4 | Piedmont Fayette Fayetteville, GA | $3.1k | $3.5k | $1.0k | 29% | 1–10 | $1.9k – $4.9k |
| 5 | Houlton Regional Hospital HOULTON, ME | $902 | $894 | $18 | 2% | 1–10 | $870 – $911 |
| 6 | Public Hospital Dist No 1 Skagit dba Cascade Valley Hospital Arlington, WA | $3.0k | $4.3k | $2.4k | 56% | 1–10 | $1.9k – $7.2k |
| 7 | Dignity Health San Bernardino, CA | $2.4k | $1.5k | $1.3k | 87% | 1–10 | $106 – $4.7k |
| 8 | Public Hospital Dis No 1 Skagit dba Skagit Valley Hospital Vernon, WA | $2.5k | $3.6k | $2.4k | 66% | 1–10 | $1.1k – $8.6k |
| 9 | Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital At Stanford PALO ALTO, CA | $2.5k | $2.4k | $901 | 38% | 1–10 | $415 – $3.1k |
| 10 | Dignity Health Gilbert, AZ | $2.0k | $1.9k | $774 | 41% | 1–10 | $128 – $3.6k |
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