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
PLEURAL EFFUSION WITHOUT CC/MCC
Based on 4–40 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$375
Average
$10.1k
Median
$9.3k
High
$19.1k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH CROWN POINT CROWN POINT, IN | $12.1k | $11.1k | $3.9k | 35% | 1–10 | $5.7k – $26.7k |
| 2 | Methodist Hospitals of Dallas Richardson, TX | $11.3k | $10.7k | $2.4k | 22% | 1–10 | $5.1k – $14.5k |
| 3 | Methodist Hospitals of Dallas Richardson, TX | $11.3k | $10.7k | $2.4k | 22% | 1–10 | $5.1k – $14.5k |
| 4 | Gila Regional Medical Center Silver County, NM | $375 | $375 | — | — | 1–10 | $375 – $375 |
| 5 | Aiken Regional Medical Centers Washington, DC | $5.3k | $5.3k | $95 | 2% | — | $5.2k – $5.5k |
| 6 | The University of Tennessee Medical Center Knoxville, TN | $2.2k | $2.2k | $765 | 34% | — | $1.5k – $3k |
| 7 | Yale New Haven Hospital Haven, CT | $7.0k | $6.2k | $2.5k | 40% | — | $2.6k – $10.7k |
| 8 | Morristown Medical Center Morristown, NJ | $17.9k | $16.2k | $3.6k | 22% | — | $6.1k – $17.9k |
| 9 | CentraState Medical Center Freehold Township, NJ | $19.3k | $18.9k | $561 | 3% | — | $17.7k – $19.3k |
| 10 | Chilton Medical Center Pompton Plains, NJ | $16.1k | $15.7k | $551 | 4% | — | $14.8k – $16.1k |
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