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.
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Insert cath pleura w/o image
Devils Lake, ND
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Altru Hospital Devils Lake’s median price of $2.3k is 13% above the median hospital's median price ($2.0k), higher than 59% of the 2,172 hospitals reporting CPT 32556. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Negotiated rates from the hospital’s own file: 5 payers, 10 plan rates. A facility fee, a professional fee, a per diem and a case rate are different bills, so each is listed on its own. Open a payer to see it across hospitals.
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| 1 | Medica medicaid managed care plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $643 | $643 | $573 | 89% | — | $70 – $1.2k |
| 2 | Medica medicaid managed care plan – hmo facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $643 | $643 | $573 | 89% | — | $70 – $1.2k |
| 3 | Medica medicare managed care plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $818 | $818 | $692 | 85% | — | $127 – $1.5k |
| 4 | Blue Cross Blue Shield medicaid managed care plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $888 | $888 | $178 | 20% | — | $710 – $1.1k |
| 5 | Medica all commercial plans facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $1.3k | $1.3k | $1.1k | 84% | — | $206 – $2.4k |
| 6 | Aetna medicare managed care plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $2.0k | $2.0k | — | — | — | $2.0k – $2.0k |
| 7 | Sanford Health Plan all commercial plans facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $2.7k | $2.7k | $392 | 15% | — | $2.3k – $3.1k |
| 8 | Aetna all commercial plans facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $2.5k | $2.7k | $616 | 23% | — | $2.1k – $3.5k |
| 9 | UnitedHealthcare all commercial plans facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $3.8k | $3.8k | — | — | — | $3.8k – $3.8k |
| 10 | Blue Cross Blue Shield all commercial plans facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $4.3k | $4.3k | $859 | 20% | — | $3.4k – $5.2k |
Last updated: Mar 1, 2026
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