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
HB Insert Cath Pleura W/O Image
Low
$135
Average
$2.9k
Median
$2.0k
High
$143.9k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $3.2k | $4.3k | $3.0k | 71% | 48–480 | $698 – $12.8k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $2.3k | $4.0k | $3.9k | 97% | 43–430 | $206 – $12.8k |
| 3 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $5.1k | $15.6k | $16.6k | 106% | 33–330 | $810 – $46.8k |
| 4 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $747 | $993 | $514 | 52% | 10–100 | $369 – $2.0k |
| 5 | Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte, NC | $588 | $616 | $247 | 40% | 10–100 | $217 – $1.0k |
| 6 | Atrium Health Hospitals Inc Shelby, NC | $632 | $623 | $285 | 46% | 10–100 | $158 – $1.1k |
| 7 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $708 | $941 | $487 | 52% | 10–100 | $349 – $1.9k |
| 8 | High Point Regional Health High Point, NC | $810 | $881 | $483 | 55% | 6–60 | $294 – $1.9k |
| 9 | Polk Medical Center Inc Cedartown, GA | $363 | $487 | $285 | 58% | 5–50 | $152 – $1.0k |
| 10 | Self Regional Healthcare Greenwood, SC | $7.6k | $7.7k | $2.6k | 33% | 4–40 | $4.9k – $10.6k |
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