Image-guided pleural catheter placement

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.

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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

Perq Drainage Pleura Insert Cath W/Imaging|LEFT SIDE

Payers reporting CPT 32557

71 payers file a negotiated rate for this code. Each is shown once, under the terms the most hospitals file it under; rates under different terms (billing class, payment method, setting) are never blended, so open a payer to see them all. Figures are hospital-level averages; the median is across hospitals.

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	602	$1,556	$1,743	$1.00 – $45,650
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	543	$1,704	$2,301	$1.05 – $26,648
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	432	$2,015	$2,988	$1.00 – $18,025
4	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	388	$1,527	$1,364	$1.00 – $8,334
5	Cigna case rate · outpatient · +35 other terms	324	$3,067	$5,040	$0.62 – $40,673
6	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	256	$1,187	$1,000	$1.00 – $5,243
7	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	179	$1,629	$1,494	$133.58 – $4,445
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	156	$1,009	$1,113	$37.29 – $11,519
9	Oscar case rate · outpatient · +23 other terms	129	$3,008	$2,504	$1,418 – $7,454
10	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	112	$1,621	$1,752	$22.00 – $11,702
11	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	103	$2,345	$2,421	$165.72 – $8,822
12	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	96	$2,564	$2,441	$188.80 – $5,130
13	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	89	$563.38	$664.25	$119.75 – $5,631
14	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	81	$1,503	$1,633	$81.29 – $5,066
15	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	80	$1,582	$1,803	$74.98 – $6,961
16	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	70	$1,284	$1,221	$1.05 – $4,445
17	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	64	$2,323	$2,315	$131.41 – $7,034
18	Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +5 other terms	60	$2,190	$1,883	$1,170 – $3,067
19	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	56	$1,763	$2,166	$152.98 – $7,817
20	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	50	$1,104	$1,584	$101.27 – $5,811
21	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	42	$1,530	$1,165	$133.58 – $1,679
22	Medicare other · both · +22 other terms	41	$1,665	$1,842	$1,422 – $3,341
23	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	39	$586.24	$467.07	$59.39 – $2,106
24	Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +6 other terms	38	$948.00	$965.81	$929.00 – $2,334
25	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	36	$1,059	$1,187	$101.27 – $2,683

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