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
Low
$155
Average
$1.9k
Median
$1.7k
High
$5.4k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
67 payers; the 90th percentile is 2.7× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many payers fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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| # | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms | 397 | $1.8k | $1.5k | $920 | 59% | 2–20 | $1 – $8.3k |
| 2 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms | 427 | $2.4k | $3.2k | $2.5k | 80% | 1–10 | $1 – $21.6k |
| 3 | Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms | 263 | $1.4k | $1.2k | $1.1k | 89% | 1–10 | $1 – $6.8k |
| 4 | WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms | 184 | $1.9k | $1.8k | $829 | 46% | 1–10 | $55 – $4.5k |
| 5 | UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms | 603 | $1.9k | $2.3k | $2.8k | 123% | — | $1 – $55.7k |
| 6 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms | 540 | $2.1k | $2.5k | $2.3k | 93% | — | $1 – $26.6k |
| 7 | Cigna case rate · outpatient · +34 other terms | 330 | $3.1k | $5.1k | $6.5k | 128% | — | $1 – $40.7k |
| 8 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms | 143 | $1.3k | $1.3k | $2.0k | 160% | — | $44 – $14.0k |
| 9 | Oscar case rate · outpatient · +22 other terms | 130 | $3.0k | $2.5k | $1.1k | 42% | — | $1.4k – $7.5k |
| 10 | MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms | 116 | $2.5k | $2.9k | $1.1k | 37% | — | $110 – $8.4k |
| 11 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms | 109 | $2.2k | $2.4k | $2.2k | 92% | — | $22 – $13.7k |
| 12 | Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms | 94 | $2.7k | $2.5k | $1.6k | 65% | — | $54 – $6.3k |
| 13 | Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms | 86 | $713 | $794 | $652 | 82% | — | $116 – $6.9k |
| 14 | Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms | 72 | $1.8k | $1.9k | $565 | 30% | — | $65 – $5.1k |
| 15 | Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms | 70 | $954 | $1.2k | $824 | 67% | — | $1 – $4.5k |
| 16 | Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +5 other terms | 67 | $3.0k | $2.7k | $567 | 21% | — | $2.0k – $4.3k |
| 17 | Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms | 64 | $1.9k | $2.0k | $926 | 45% | — | $108 – $5.3k |
| 18 | First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms | 59 | $2.7k | $2.9k | $2.1k | 73% | — | $131 – $7.6k |
| 19 | Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms | 53 | $1.7k | $1.7k | $1.5k | 91% | — | $111 – $7.1k |
| 20 | Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms | 52 | $2.0k | $2.0k | $1.7k | 85% | — | $102 – $8.6k |
| 21 | Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms | 40 | $994 | $1.4k | $702 | 50% | — | $111 – $2.0k |
| 22 | Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms | 38 | $620 | $509 | $576 | 113% | — | $50 – $2.3k |
| 23 | Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +7 other terms | 38 | $948 | $976 | $245 | 25% | — | $929 – $2.9k |
| 24 | Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms | 34 | $2.1k | $2.1k | $546 | 25% | — | $1.7k – $4.6k |
| 25 | Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms | 34 | $800 | $945 | $751 | 80% | — | $26 – $3.3k |
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