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
Thoracoscopy Dx Mediastinal Space W/Biopsy Spx
Based on 141–1,410 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$88
Average
$7.1k
Median
$6.7k
High
$78.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $55.8k | $67.0k | $45.4k | 68% | 52–520 | $425 – $141.6k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $60.4k | $58.2k | $28.5k | 49% | 49–490 | $6.9k – $104.2k |
| 3 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $18.0k | $29.8k | $21.7k | 73% | 28–280 | $6.2k – $66.8k |
| 4 | Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church, VA | $7.5k | $8.2k | $3.1k | 38% | 3–30 | $3.5k – $16.0k |
| 5 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Hackensack, NJ | $7.8k | $8.1k | $3.9k | 48% | 2–20 | $950 – $22.3k |
| 6 | Mayo Clinic Arizona Phoenix, AZ | $2.1k | $2.1k | $1.1k | 50% | 2–20 | $208 – $21.8k |
| 7 | Hartford Hospital HARTFORD, CT | $2.5k | $6.1k | $4.0k | 66% | 1–10 | $2.5k – $12.7k |
| 8 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Manahawkin, NJ | $7.9k | $7.5k | $3.7k | 50% | 1–10 | $930 – $19.7k |
| 9 | St Luke's Regional Medical Center, LTD Boise, ID | $11.3k | $11.2k | $3.0k | 27% | 1–10 | $6.5k – $17.5k |
| 10 | Arkansas Childrens Hospital Little Rock, AR | $5.7k | $4.8k | $3.6k | 76% | 1–10 | $1.5k – $13.5k |
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