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 Rmvl Intrapleural FB/Fibrin Deposit
Based on 110–1,100 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$0
Average
$7.0k
Median
$4.7k
High
$137.8k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $77.7k | $94.7k | $64.9k | 69% | 52–520 | $425 – $197.1k |
| 2 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $67.7k | $73.2k | $48.2k | 66% | 37–370 | $4.2k – $135.5k |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $138.0k | $137.8k | $60.5k | 44% | 19–190 | $38.9k – $197.1k |
| 4 | Baptist Hospital Of Miami MIAMI, FL | $1.7k | $1.7k | — | — | 1–10 | $1.7k – $1.7k |
| 5 | The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX | $569 | $600 | $128 | 21% | 1–10 | $431 – $1.0k |
| 6 | St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital, Inc Shawnee, OK | $4.1k | $4.2k | $2.2k | 52% | — | $1.6k – $7.0k |
| 7 | Lewisgale Hospital Montgomery CHRISTIANSBURG, VA | $10.7k | $11.0k | $5.7k | 52% | — | $2.0k – $22.4k |
| 8 | Ingalls Memorial Hospital Harvey, IL | $14.5k | $14.5k | — | — | — | $14.5k – $14.5k |
| 9 | USA Health University Hospital Mobile, AL | $1.0k | $1.4k | $858 | 61% | — | $986 – $3.8k |
| 10 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $2.7k | $3.2k | $2.5k | 77% | — | $677 – $9.0k |
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