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 Thoracoscopy With Biopsyies of Pleura
Based on 319–2,533 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$85
Average
$7.0k
Median
$6.7k
High
$77.6k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $12.6k | $21.3k | $20.4k | 96% | 79–403 | $2.3k – $72.9k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $9.3k | $14.6k | $13.8k | 94% | 52–520 | $425 – $45.7k |
| 3 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $30.9k | $33.9k | $21.5k | 64% | 37–370 | $4.2k – $61.8k |
| 4 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $9.2k | $19.8k | $19.0k | 96% | 30–300 | $2.0k – $73.2k |
| 5 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $8.3k | $13.6k | $13.0k | 96% | 28–280 | $1.7k – $44.1k |
| 6 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $20.7k | $13.1k | $9.7k | 74% | 24–240 | $89 – $23.0k |
| 7 | Eisenhower Medical Center Rancho Mirage, CA | $7.8k | $8.0k | $5.0k | 62% | 15 | $126 – $24.8k |
| 8 | Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital Santa Monica, CA | $8.2k | $10.2k | $4.3k | 42% | 15 | $7.4k – $22.3k |
| 9 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $7.2k | $7.5k | $1.6k | 22% | 4–40 | $5.1k – $10.3k |
| 10 | Mayo Clinic Arizona Phoenix, AZ | $15.2k | $11.1k | $8.8k | 80% | 4–40 | $116 – $21.4k |
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