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
$3.9k
Average
$13.1k
Median
$13.1k
High
$22.3k
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Reflects a negotiated percentage of total billed charges.
| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hendricks Regional Health Danville, IN | $3.9k | $3.9k | $359 | 9% | — | $3.1k – $22.0k |
| 2 | Charleston Area Medical Center Charleston, WV | $29.4k | $22.3k | $12.1k | 54% | — | $4.4k – $33.5k |
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