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
Low
$323
Average
$5.1k
Median
$4.5k
High
$22.3k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
65 payers; the 90th percentile is 6.0× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many payers fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UnitedHealthcare case rate · outpatient · +28 other terms | 455 | $9.2k | $9.1k | $4.7k | 52% | 10–100 | $1 – $36.5k |
| 2 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms | 469 | $6.2k | $6.8k | $4.6k | 68% | — | $1 – $39.9k |
| 3 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms | 370 | $7.7k | $9.9k | $5.8k | 59% | — | $1 – $53.6k |
| 4 | Cigna case rate · outpatient · +23 other terms | 326 | $10.0k | $10.4k | $5.7k | 55% | — | $1 – $40.7k |
| 5 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms | 291 | $5.9k | $5.4k | $2.8k | 52% | — | $1 – $24.6k |
| 6 | Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms | 168 | $5.8k | $5.9k | $3.8k | 64% | — | $1 – $16.4k |
| 7 | WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms | 150 | $6.3k | $6.6k | $1.9k | 29% | — | $279 – $13.7k |
| 8 | Oscar case rate · outpatient · +19 other terms | 130 | $9.4k | $8.7k | $3.1k | 35% | — | $3.5k – $17.8k |
| 9 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms | 128 | $4.3k | $4.2k | $7.3k | 174% | — | $141 – $44.2k |
| 10 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms | 98 | $7.4k | $8.5k | $7.6k | 89% | — | $15 – $41.0k |
| 11 | Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +3 other terms | 76 | $6.4k | $7.0k | $1.1k | 15% | — | $3.4k – $8.6k |
| 12 | Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms | 72 | $5.9k | $5.3k | $2.0k | 37% | — | $239 – $6.8k |
| 13 | Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms | 57 | $10.3k | $10.3k | $2.8k | 27% | — | $353 – $14.1k |
| 14 | Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms | 42 | $5.7k | $5.4k | $1.6k | 30% | — | $229 – $7.7k |
| 15 | Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms | 41 | $7.6k | $7.8k | $2.0k | 26% | — | $1 – $10.3k |
| 16 | Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +3 other terms | 38 | $948 | $1.2k | $1.4k | 114% | — | $929 – $8.8k |
| 17 | Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms | 36 | $5.7k | $6.5k | $5.5k | 85% | — | $239 – $22.3k |
| 18 | MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms | 33 | $8.0k | $8.8k | $1.5k | 17% | — | $302 – $9.3k |
| 19 | Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms | 32 | $7.2k | $7.4k | $3.0k | 41% | — | $3.8k – $20.1k |
| 20 | Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms | 32 | $6.4k | $6.3k | $382 | 6% | — | $5.5k – $7.3k |
| 21 | Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms | 32 | $245 | $356 | $210 | 59% | — | $20 – $788 |
| 22 | First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms | 29 | $6.3k | $6.7k | $3.3k | 49% | — | $238 – $12.5k |
| 23 | Medica case rate · outpatient · +17 other terms | 28 | $4.0k | $4.9k | $2.2k | 45% | — | $1.6k – $10.6k |
| 24 | Bcbs La fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 25 | $10.6k | $10.6k | $2.3k | 21% | — | $3.4k – $14.7k |
| 25 | Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms | 24 | $239 | $1.4k | $2.3k | 161% | — | $219 – $6.0k |
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