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 WITH MCC
Based on 6,559–24,415 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$56
Average
$18.7k
Median
$17.3k
High
$213.5k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $64.6k | $53.9k | $16.4k | 30% | 1,485 | $14.8k – $76.1k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $32.3k | $35.8k | $19.7k | 55% | 702 | $9.2k – $64.6k |
| 3 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $22.7k | $25.1k | $11.3k | 45% | 459 | $8.4k – $38.9k |
| 4 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc MONROEVILLE, PA | $11.5k | $10.3k | $6.2k | 60% | 360–576 | $241 – $26.7k |
| 5 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $19.1k | $27.3k | $17.6k | 64% | 345 | $11.1k – $69.1k |
| 6 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $44.3k | $43.5k | $30.6k | 70% | 275 | $11.1k – $90.5k |
| 7 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $19.6k | $29.9k | $19.1k | 64% | 228 | $10.7k – $64.4k |
| 8 | IOM Health System LP Fort Wayne, IN | $12.9k | $15.9k | $6.8k | 43% | 87–168 | $1.2k – $38.8k |
| 9 | Northside Hospital, Inc. Atlanta, GA | $6.3k | $10.0k | $7.3k | 72% | 59–239 | $1.1k – $31.9k |
| 10 | Las Cruces Medical Center LLC Las Cruces, NM | $12.4k | $12.4k | $5.6k | 45% | 56–146 | $35 – $25.5k |
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