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Chest Drainage For Infection, With Rib Removal

Oklahoma 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?

$2,326

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,326 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $813 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,514 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$813$776 to $1,000
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,514$1,000 to $3,890

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,514 · 10th to 90th $813 to $6,457Professionalmedian $813 · 10th to 90th $661 to $1,318
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,514professional $813

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
$812.83
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$6,606.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,023.29
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,288.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,122.02
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$6,025.60
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$5,248.07
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$6,165.95
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,148.15

Where Oklahoma 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

Oklahoma· 47th of 50

$2,326

$813 physician + $1,514 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.