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 W/BX PLEURA
Low
$1
Average
$8.6k
Median
$7.4k
High
$665.2k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital Santa Monica, CA | $10.9k | $11.2k | $1.3k | 12% | 15 | $9.7k – $12.9k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $7.3k | $7.3k | $385 | 5% | 2–20 | $6.9k – $7.7k |
| 3 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $6.5k | $6.5k | $342 | 5% | 2–20 | $6.2k – $6.8k |
| 4 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $6.3k | $6.3k | $272 | 4% | 2–20 | $6.1k – $6.6k |
| 5 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $6.5k | $6.5k | $342 | 5% | 2–20 | $6.2k – $6.8k |
| 6 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $5.6k | $5.6k | $293 | 5% | 2–20 | $5.3k – $5.9k |
| 7 | The William W Backus Hospital NORWICH, CT | $8.9k | $8.9k | $1.3k | 14% | 1–10 | $7.6k – $10.2k |
| 8 | Rush Medical Foundation Meridian, MS | $5.4k | $6.5k | $3.2k | 50% | 1–10 | $2.7k – $14.9k |
| 9 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $8.5k | $8.3k | $1.6k | 19% | 1–10 | $5.1k – $10.3k |
| 10 | Albany Medical Center Hospital Albany, NY | $4.7k | $4.1k | $1.7k | 41% | 1–10 | $2.1k – $8.3k |
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