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
Low
$3.7k
Average
$9.6k
Median
$7.1k
High
$19.1k
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Showing only prices reported under the case rate methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 27 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 2.9× 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 | Aiken Regional Medical Centers Washington, DC | $5.3k | $5.3k | $95 | 2% | — | $5.2k – $5.5k |
| 2 | Mclaren Oakland PONTIAC, MI | $8.5k | $9.3k | $3.3k | 35% | — | $5.0k – $16.7k |
| 3 | Mclaren Bay Region CITY, MI | $5.5k | $6.2k | $1.2k | 19% | — | $4.9k – $18.2k |
| 4 | Mclaren Flint FLINT, MI | $6.6k | $7.1k | $1.6k | 22% | — | $4.9k – $12.5k |
| 5 | Mclaren Northern Michigan PETOSKEY, MI | $6.3k | $7.1k | $1.9k | 27% | — | $5.0k – $11.6k |
| 6 | Karmanos Cancer Center DETROIT, MI | $7.1k | $7.2k | $1.4k | 20% | — | $4.9k – $12.5k |
| 7 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH MICHIGAN CITY CITY, IN | $12.1k | $13.8k | $3.0k | 21% | — | $4.2k – $17.9k |
| 8 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH CROWN POINT CROWN POINT, IN | $12.1k | $11.6k | $3.8k | 33% | — | $5.7k – $26.7k |
| 9 | Mercy Hospital Joplin dba Mercy Hospital Joplin Joplin, MO | $6.0k | $6.1k | $1.4k | 24% | — | $4.0k – $9.0k |
| 10 | Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City Inc City, OK | $5.1k | $5.1k | — | — | — | $5.1k – $5.1k |
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