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 Pleural Drainage Catheter Exchange - Unlisted
Low
$73
Average
$2.5k
Median
$855
High
$16.1k
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Showing only prices reported under the per diem methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 72 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 17.4× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $425 | $425 | — | — | 1–10 | $425 – $425 |
| 2 | Deaconess Hospital, Inc Newburgh, IN | $617 | $617 | — | — | — | $617 – $617 |
| 3 | Methodist Hospital Hill Country Fredericksburg, TX | $365 | $365 | — | — | — | $365 – $365 |
| 4 | University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC | $5.5k | $5.5k | $1.1k | 19% | — | $4.5k – $6.6k |
| 5 | Tristar Centennial Medical Center SPRING HILL, TN | $805 | $846 | $105 | 12% | — | $743 – $990 |
| 6 | Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Chicago, IL | $2.7k | $2.4k | $1.1k | 48% | — | $900 – $3.7k |
| 7 | Tristar Southern Hills Medical Center ANTIOCH, TN | $921 | $921 | $57 | 6% | — | $850 – $990 |
| 8 | MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center DeWitt, IA | $2.7k | $2.1k | $825 | 39% | — | $928 – $2.7k |
| 9 | Tristar Skyline Medical Center NASHVILLE, TN | $778 | $829 | $117 | 14% | — | $718 – $990 |
| 10 | Fairfield Medical Center Lancaster, OH | $1.1k | $2.5k | $2.4k | 96% | — | $1.1k – $6.7k |
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