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
Based on 443–3,836 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$56
Average
$9.6k
Median
$8.9k
High
$65.6k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian Newport Beach, CA | $3.8k | $5.0k | $5.4k | 108% | 63–189 | $110 – $22.2k |
| 2 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $11.4k | $15.4k | $9.4k | 61% | 37–370 | $749 – $30.3k |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $28.8k | $31.7k | $13.7k | 43% | 20–200 | $12.9k – $46.1k |
| 4 | Vicksburg Healthcare LLC Vicksburg, MS | $6.1k | $5.5k | $2.9k | 53% | 20–47 | $35 – $12.1k |
| 5 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $10.4k | $19.1k | $15.2k | 80% | 19–190 | $5.1k – $46.1k |
| 6 | Infirmary Health Thomas Fairhope, AL | $5.5k | $6.7k | $5.8k | 86% | 17–170 | $1.1k – $23.5k |
| 7 | Infirmary Health Mobile Mobile, AL | $6.1k | $9.4k | $8.4k | 89% | 8–80 | $893 – $31.4k |
| 8 | Northside Hospital, Inc. Atlanta, GA | $6.3k | $8.4k | $5.7k | 67% | 4–40 | $1.1k – $24.2k |
| 9 | Triad of Alabama LLC Dothan, AL | $3.4k | $3.8k | $2.2k | 59% | 4–40 | $754 – $9.2k |
| 10 | Northside Hospital, Inc. Cumming, GA | $5.1k | $6.4k | $4.8k | 74% | 4–40 | $1.1k – $24.2k |
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