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/Parietal Pleurectomy
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Low
$135
Average
$7.5k
Median
$4.8k
High
$94.7k
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| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $59.7k | $64.5k | $34.4k | 53% | 30–300 | $11.6k – $103.9k |
| 2 | Eisenhower Medical Center Rancho Mirage, CA | $539 | $659 | $523 | 79% | 4–40 | $8 – $1.7k |
| 3 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Hackensack, NJ | $2.2k | $4.8k | $6.6k | 138% | 2–20 | $439 – $30.8k |
| 4 | St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital, Inc Shawnee, OK | $4.1k | $5.6k | $4.3k | 77% | — | $1.2k – $11.5k |
| 5 | Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham Needham, MA | $2.3k | $2.3k | — | — | — | $2.3k – $2.3k |
| 6 | Lewisgale Hospital Montgomery CHRISTIANSBURG, VA | $10.7k | $10.9k | $5.5k | 50% | — | $2.0k – $21.7k |
| 7 | Ingalls Memorial Hospital Harvey, IL | $17.2k | $17.2k | — | — | — | $17.2k – $17.2k |
| 8 | USA Health University Hospital Mobile, AL | $779 | $1.3k | $1.1k | 90% | — | $764 – $4.5k |
| 9 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $1.9k | $2.2k | $2.0k | 89% | — | $516 – $11.1k |
| 10 | Aurora Medical Center Mount Pleasant Mount Pleasant, WI | $18.8k | $19.3k | $2.6k | 14% | — | $14.5k – $25.7k |
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