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
Low
$140
Average
$2.9k
Median
$2.2k
High
$281.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $4.9k | $6.6k | $4.9k | 75% | 369–495 | $862 – $19.8k |
| 2 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $1.9k | $1.8k | $171 | 9% | 247–310 | $1.5k – $2.0k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $4.9k | $5.9k | $4.2k | 72% | 43–430 | $549 – $15.1k |
| 4 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $4.2k | $4.6k | $2.8k | 61% | 33–330 | $824 – $9.6k |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $3.7k | $5.4k | $3.5k | 64% | 29–290 | $674 – $12.2k |
| 6 | Rideout Memorial Hospital Marysville, CA | $2.5k | $2.8k | $748 | 27% | 12–120 | $1.7k – $4.2k |
| 7 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $437 | $588 | $305 | 52% | 9–90 | $224 – $1.2k |
| 8 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $414 | $557 | $289 | 52% | 9–90 | $212 – $1.1k |
| 9 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $2.3k | $2.4k | $484 | 20% | 7–70 | $1.2k – $3.6k |
| 10 | Hanford Community Hospital Hanford, CA | $3.2k | $3.1k | $1.1k | 34% | 6–60 | $124 – $4.8k |
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