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
Low
$0
Average
$5.3k
Median
$5.4k
High
$35k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $16.3k | $13.8k | $3.2k | 23% | 8–80 | $9.8k – $16.3k |
| 2 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $8.6k | $8.1k | $898 | 11% | 5–50 | $6.3k – $8.6k |
| 3 | Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church, VA | $11.4k | $12.5k | $2.5k | 20% | 3–30 | $10.0k – $16.0k |
| 4 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $11.3k | $11.3k | — | — | 1–10 | $11.3k – $11.3k |
| 5 | St Luke's Regional Medical Center, LTD Boise, ID | $6.5k | $6.6k | $184 | 3% | 1–10 | $6.5k – $7.2k |
| 6 | San Joaquin Community Hospital Bakersfield, CA | $7.8k | $7.8k | — | — | — | $7.8k – $7.8k |
| 7 | Henry Ford Health Novi, MI | $579 | $613 | $49 | 8% | — | $579 – $682 |
| 8 | Northside Hospital, Inc. Lawrenceville, GA | $9.0k | $8.3k | $2.6k | 32% | — | $383 – $12k |
| 9 | Spohn Hospital Beeville Beeville, TX | $5.9k | $5.9k | — | — | — | $5.9k – $5.9k |
| 10 | St Luke's Magic Valley Regional Medical Center, LTD Twin Falls, ID | $6.7k | $6.9k | $190 | 3% | — | $6.7k – $7.4k |
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