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 CC
Low
$0
Average
$22.4k
Median
$17.6k
High
$172.8k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $46.2k | $37.4k | $11.8k | 32% | 929 | $9.0k – $48.1k |
| 2 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $32.2k | $27.4k | $9.9k | 36% | 234 | $7.0k – $35.8k |
| 3 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc MONROEVILLE, PA | $4.0k | $4.0k | $3.3k | 83% | 120–174 | $706 – $7.4k |
| 4 | Jefferson Regional Medical Center JEFFERSON HILLS, PA | $1.0k | $1.0k | — | — | 84 | $1.0k – $1.0k |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $28.2k | $29.4k | $11.8k | 40% | 27–270 | $425 – $44.8k |
| 6 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $41.8k | $35.8k | $12.3k | 34% | 17–170 | $7.0k – $48.6k |
| 7 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $55.0k | $52.2k | $16.4k | 31% | 14–140 | $7.0k – $70.9k |
| 8 | Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital Sandwich, IL | $10.9k | $10.4k | $3.8k | 37% | 12–120 | $3.8k – $27.3k |
| 9 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $16.5k | $18.3k | $7.8k | 43% | 11–110 | $6.3k – $32.5k |
| 10 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $34.6k | $33.1k | $14.1k | 43% | 9–90 | $7.1k – $48.1k |
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