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
SYS/DRAIN CHEST DRY SUC/ATRIUM
Low
$73
Average
$1.7k
Median
$647
High
$5.4k
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Reflects a negotiated per diem rate paid per day of care.
Showing only prices reported under the per diem methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 5 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 39.1× 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 | UPMC Muncy Muncy, PA | $2.3k | $2.3k | $54 | 2% | — | $59 – $2.3k |
| 2 | Arthur G James Cancer Hospital And Research Institute Columbus, OH | $5.4k | $5.4k | $434 | 8% | — | $4.3k – $5.8k |
| 3 | SwedishAmerican Hospital Rockford, IL | $155 | $155 | — | — | — | $19 – $1.4k |
| 4 | Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles Angeles, CA | $54 | $73 | $73 | 100% | — | $1 – $256 |
| 5 | The Children's Hospital of Alabama Birmingham, AL | $647 | $647 | $376 | 58% | — | $271 – $1.0k |
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