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
HC PERC PLACE INTRA-THORACIC INTERSTIT RAD THERAPY GUIDE 1/MULT
San Diego, CA
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Sharp Memorial Hospital’s median price of $2.1k is 21% above the median hospital's median price ($1.7k), higher than 61% of the 1,659 hospitals reporting CPT 32553. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Negotiated rates from the hospital’s own file: 7 payers, 11 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 | Medicare medicare fee schedule · outpatient | $1 | $1 | — | — | — | $1 – $1 |
| 2 | Aetna first health medicare percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges | $465 | $465 | — | — | — | $465 – $465 |
| 3 | Humana choice care network percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges | $1.5k | $1.5k | — | — | — | $1.5k – $1.5k |
| 4 | Medicare medicare percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges | $2.0k | $2.0k | — | — | — | $2.0k – $2.0k |
| 5 | Blue Cross Blue Shield blue cross - standard percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | $2.1k | $2.1k | — | — | — | $2.1k – $2.1k |
| 6 | Blue Cross Blue Shield blue cross - ppo percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | $2.1k | $2.1k | — | — | — | $2.1k – $2.1k |
| 7 | Cigna cigna - hmo percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges | $2.2k | $2.2k | — | — | — | $2.2k – $2.2k |
| 8 | Molina molina - exchange percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | $2.2k | $2.2k | — | — | — | $2.2k – $2.2k |
| 9 | Aetna first health - leased/ccn percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges | $2.3k | $2.3k | — | — | — | $2.3k – $2.3k |
| 10 | Optum optum health - medicare percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges | $2.3k | $2.3k | — | — | — | $2.3k – $2.3k |
| 11 | Blue Cross Blue Shield blue shield - promise percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges | $2.4k | $2.4k | — | — | — | $2.4k – $2.4k |
Last updated: Apr 1, 2026
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