CPT 96440
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 CHEMO PLEURAL W THORACENTESIS
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Low
$31
Average
$957
Median
$720
High
$25.8k
Showing only prices reported under the percent of billed charges methodology. Choose another in the filter below to change the chart. 265 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 5.7× 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 | Rex Hospital, Inc. Raleigh, NC | $401 | $682 | $383 | 56% | — | $390 – $1.6k |
| 2 | Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Lakeway Lakeway, TX | $394 | $392 | $110 | 28% | — | $131 – $590 |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $741 | $727 | $226 | 31% | — | $191 – $1.0k |
| 4 | The Outer Banks Hospital, Inc. Nags Head, NC | $1.6k | $1.5k | $497 | 32% | — | $763 – $2.3k |
| 5 | Children's National Hospital Washington, DC | $393 | $421 | $90 | 21% | — | $329 – $643 |
| 6 | Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Pflugerville Pflugerville, TX | $394 | $387 | $122 | 32% | — | $72 – $590 |
| 7 | Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset Somerville, NJ | $726 | $649 | $262 | 40% | — | $150 – $951 |
| 8 | Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital Inc. Muncie, IN | $908 | $934 | $231 | 25% | — | $234 – $1.3k |
| 9 | UPMC Western Maryland Cumberland, MD | $586 | $586 | — | — | — | $586 – $586 |
| 10 | Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital Shelbyville, TN | $1.5k | $1.6k | $240 | 15% | — | $719 – $1.9k |
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