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
$449
Average
$5.0k
Median
$3.9k
High
$18.7k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
27 payers; the 90th percentile is 4.5× 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 | Aetna facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +7 other terms | 15 | $1.2k | $2.5k | $4.7k | 188% | — | $753 – $24.2k |
| 2 | Cigna facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +6 other terms | 14 | $1.8k | $4.0k | $6.6k | 167% | — | $911 – $26.4k |
| 3 | UnitedHealthcare professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +7 other terms | 10 | $3.3k | $4.0k | $1.3k | 32% | — | $1.6k – $6.6k |
| 4 | MultiPlan facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +6 other terms | 9 | $2.2k | $3.7k | $6.1k | 166% | — | $163 – $26.4k |
| 5 | Anthem professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 8 | $6.8k | $5.6k | $1.8k | 32% | — | $2.8k – $6.8k |
| 6 | Blue Cross Blue Shield professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +4 other terms | 8 | $5.6k | $5.3k | $1.9k | 36% | — | $1.3k – $7.0k |
| 7 | First Health facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +6 other terms | 8 | $2.2k | $2.2k | $436 | 20% | — | $1.5k – $2.9k |
| 8 | Optum professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 8 | $6.7k | $5.6k | $1.4k | 25% | — | $2.9k – $6.7k |
| 9 | Medcost professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 7 | $3.5k | $4.5k | $1.5k | 32% | — | $3.4k – $6.9k |
| 10 | Medica professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 7 | $3.5k | $4.0k | $1.5k | 37% | — | $2.6k – $7.0k |
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