CPT 33238
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
Remove electrode/thoracotomy
Low
$704
Average
$3.8k
Median
$2.7k
High
$13.9k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
58 payers; the 90th percentile is 8.0× 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 · +23 other terms | 373 | $4.4k | $6.4k | $4.8k | 75% | — | $1 – $30k |
| 2 | Cigna case rate · outpatient · +19 other terms | 247 | $10.0k | $18.8k | $13.7k | 72% | — | $1 – $44.3k |
| 3 | Aetna case rate · outpatient · +23 other terms | 204 | $4.9k | $7.8k | $10.5k | 135% | — | $603 – $132.7k |
| 4 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms | 183 | $7.2k | $9.7k | $7.2k | 74% | — | $0 – $33.7k |
| 5 | Oscar case rate · outpatient · +13 other terms | 127 | $15.9k | $15.6k | $9.5k | 61% | — | $3.5k – $42.5k |
| 6 | Humana case rate · outpatient · +20 other terms | 126 | $4.7k | $16.0k | $13.2k | 82% | — | $252 – $39.6k |
| 7 | Anthem case rate · outpatient · +15 other terms | 100 | $7.4k | $7.8k | $3.5k | 45% | — | $822 – $29.0k |
| 8 | Molina case rate · outpatient · +12 other terms | 87 | $2.7k | $4.5k | $4.9k | 107% | — | $264 – $20.2k |
| 9 | Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient | 53 | $5.8k | $7.9k | $4.7k | 59% | — | $2.1k – $14.6k |
| 10 | WellCare facility · case rate · outpatient · +9 other terms | 45 | $12.6k | $10.1k | $6.7k | 66% | — | $829 – $19.0k |
| 11 | Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient | 41 | $2.4k | $2.4k | $18 | 1% | — | $2.3k – $2.4k |
| 12 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms | 37 | $893 | $991 | $287 | 29% | — | $814 – $2.0k |
| 13 | Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 31 | $1.5k | $1.6k | $644 | 41% | — | $762 – $4.1k |
| 14 | Ambetter case rate · outpatient · +9 other terms | 25 | $4.2k | $6.8k | $10.6k | 157% | — | $0 – $39.3k |
| 15 | Medica case rate · outpatient · +8 other terms | 25 | $2.3k | $1.9k | $596 | 32% | — | $671 – $2.9k |
| 16 | Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms | 22 | $664 | $761 | $341 | 45% | — | $434 – $2.3k |
| 17 | Caresource facility · case rate · outpatient · +11 other terms | 21 | $2.7k | $3.8k | $4.4k | 115% | — | $829 – $21.5k |
| 18 | Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 21 | $912 | $903 | $10 | 1% | — | $885 – $912 |
| 19 | Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms | 18 | $865 | $682 | $312 | 46% | — | $379 – $1.1k |
| 20 | Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 18 | $893 | $876 | $22 | 3% | — | $814 – $912 |
| 21 | Optum facility · case rate · outpatient · +8 other terms | 18 | $2.9k | $5.6k | $4.6k | 81% | — | $896 – $14.7k |
| 22 | Amerihealth Caritas case rate · outpatient · +5 other terms | 14 | $30.0k | $27.4k | $7.9k | 29% | — | $8.2k – $33.7k |
| 23 | Highmark fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms | 13 | $1.1k | $1.2k | $309 | 26% | — | $561 – $3.2k |
| 24 | MultiPlan fee schedule · both · +13 other terms | 13 | $1.7k | $1.6k | $521 | 32% | — | $685 – $3.0k |
| 25 | Wellmark fee schedule · both · +7 other terms | 13 | $1.7k | $1.7k | $516 | 31% | — | $840 – $2.2k |
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