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 Perq Drainage Pleura Insert Cath W/Imaging
Based on 1,134–4,563 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$56
Average
$2.4k
Median
$2.1k
High
$17.4k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $4.6k | $6.5k | $4.9k | 76% | 413–539 | $425 – $19.8k |
| 2 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $1.9k | $1.9k | $656 | 35% | 308–380 | $168 – $3.6k |
| 3 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $4.0k | $3.9k | $803 | 21% | 54 | $1.2k – $5.1k |
| 4 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $4.8k | $5.5k | $4.3k | 77% | 50–500 | $166 – $15.1k |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $3.2k | $4.6k | $3.6k | 78% | 41–410 | $15 – $12.2k |
| 6 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $4.0k | $4.4k | $2.9k | 65% | 37–370 | $229 – $9.6k |
| 7 | Rideout Memorial Hospital Marysville, CA | $2.2k | $2.2k | $1.5k | 66% | 12–120 | $101 – $7.4k |
| 8 | Lake Charles Memorial Hospital Charles, LA | $1.4k | $1.7k | $1.1k | 62% | 10–100 | $54 – $4.8k |
| 9 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $440 | $713 | $707 | 99% | 9–90 | $224 – $4.1k |
| 10 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $517 | $803 | $621 | 77% | 9–90 | $212 – $3.2k |
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