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
Insert Pleural Catheter
Sioux Falls, SD
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Avera McKennan Hospital’s median price of $2.6k is 33% below the median hospital's median price ($4.0k), higher than 18% of the 2,102 hospitals reporting CPT 32550. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Last updated: Apr 1, 2026
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