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Chest Drainage For Infection, With Rib Removal

Nevada 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?

$5,299

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,299 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $832 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,467 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$832$794 to $1,072
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,467$832 to $9,333

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,467 · 10th to 90th $794 to $10,965Professionalmedian $832 · 10th to 90th $708 to $1,479
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $4,467professional $832

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
$794.33
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$10,232.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$3,890.45
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,370.32
Median
$9,332.54
Typical High
$12,882.50
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,380.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,230.27
Hometown Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.24
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,258.93
Hometown Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,071.52
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$707.95
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$588.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$6,606.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$36.31
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,230.27

Where Nevada 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

Nevada· 21st of 50

$5,299

$832 physician + $4,467 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.