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
$0
Average
$3.9k
Median
$3.3k
High
$36.5k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Infirmary Health Thomas Fairhope, AL | $1.4k | $2.2k | $1.3k | 57% | 17–170 | $1.1k – $23.5k |
| 2 | Infirmary Health Mobile Mobile, AL | $3.4k | $5.6k | $7.8k | 140% | 8–80 | $893 – $31.4k |
| 3 | Northside Hospital, Inc. Atlanta, GA | $4.6k | $4.8k | $1.5k | 31% | 2–20 | $1.1k – $24.2k |
| 4 | Triad of Alabama LLC Dothan, AL | $1.3k | $1.5k | $643 | 44% | 1–10 | $754 – $9.2k |
| 5 | Granbury Hospital Corporation Granbury, TX | $1.1k | $1.1k | — | — | 1–10 | $1.1k – $19.5k |
| 6 | St Louis Childrens Hospital Saint Louis, MO | $7.7k | $8.4k | $1.6k | 19% | 1–10 | $6.0k – $16.3k |
| 7 | Medical Ctiy Argyle Argyle, TX | $5.5k | $4.5k | $2.3k | 52% | — | $927 – $21.6k |
| 8 | Medical City Alliance SAGINAW, TX | $5.5k | $4.8k | $2.2k | 47% | — | $995 – $21.6k |
| 9 | Medical City Mckinney McKinney, TX | $2.8k | $3.3k | $2.5k | 75% | — | $142 – $21.6k |
| 10 | Medical City Las Colinas Irving, TX | $5.0k | $4.5k | $2.0k | 46% | — | $995 – $23.1k |
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