CPT 81538
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
HC ONCOLOGY LUNG
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Low
$307
Average
$4.1k
Median
$349
High
$27.9k
Showing only prices reported under the percent of billed charges methodology. Choose another in the filter below to change the chart. 24 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 27.8× 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 | Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Frisco at PGA Parkway Frisco, TX | $346 | $357 | $68 | 19% | — | $167 – $447 |
| 2 | Fairfield Medical Center Lancaster, OH | $26.1k | $27.9k | $3.2k | 12% | — | $25.9k – $33.5k |
| 3 | Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital - Plano Plano, TX | $346 | $338 | $100 | 30% | — | $77 – $447 |
| 4 | Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital - Denton Denton, TX | $346 | $337 | $104 | 31% | — | $66 – $447 |
| 5 | Virginia Mason Medical Center Seattle, WA | $6.0k | $5.9k | $547 | 9% | — | $5.1k – $6.8k |
| 6 | Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - McKinney McKinney, TX | $346 | $341 | $94 | 28% | — | $101 – $447 |
| 7 | Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center - Fort Worth Fort Worth, TX | $337 | $307 | $122 | 40% | — | $95 – $447 |
| 8 | Barnes Jewish St. Peters Hospital St. Peters, MO | $5.6k | $5.3k | $866 | 16% | — | $3.9k – $6.2k |
| 9 | University of Illinois Hospital & Clinics Chicago, IL | $10.0k | $10.0k | $2.0k | 20% | — | $6.1k – $15.4k |
| 10 | Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Irving Irving, TX | $346 | $323 | $117 | 36% | — | $66 – $447 |
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