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Chest Drainage For Infection, With Rib Removal

Alabama rates for HCPCS 32035

Surgery to drain a pocket of infected fluid from the space between the lung and the chest wall. The surgeon opens the chest wall and takes out a short segment of one rib to make a wide opening, so the thick infected fluid can escape and a drain can be placed.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Chest Drainage For Infection, With Rib Removal cost?

$5,004

Typical total for the visit. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,004 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,202 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,802 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,202$794 to $1,202
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,802$1,259 to $8,318

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,802 · 10th to 90th $813 to $10,233Professionalmedian $1,202 · 10th to 90th $661 to $1,622
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,802professional $1,202

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$1,621.81
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,079.46
Median
$8,511.38
Typical High
$11,481.54
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,174.90
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,380.38
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$5,248.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,202.26

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 15.9 times more in Maine than in Maryland. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility fee

Alabama· 23rd of 50

$5,004

$1,202 physician + $3,802 facility

ME $23,387MD $1,474

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.