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Chest Wall Collapse Surgery With Airway Repair

Nebraska rates for HCPCS 32906

Major chest wall surgery in which ribs are removed so the chest wall falls inwards and closes off an infected space around the lung, carried out together with closure of an abnormal opening between an airway and that space. It is used for long-standing infection in the chest cavity that has not settled with drainage and antibiotics. Sealing the airway leak is essential for the space to heal.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Chest Wall Collapse Surgery With Airway Repair cost?

$6,558

Typical total for the visit. In Nebraska, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,558 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $3,467 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,090 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$3,467$2,818 to $3,802
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,090$676 to $9,333

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,090 · 10th to 90th $537 to $13,804Professionalmedian $3,467 · 10th to 90th $2,089 to $4,898
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $3,090professional $3,467

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,445.44
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9,332.54
Median
$12,589.25
Typical High
$25,118.86
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,019.95
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$4,897.79
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$4,365.16
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$11,748.98
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,951.21
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$4,897.79
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,951.21
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$3,388.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$3,801.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$4,466.84

Where Nebraska sits

The same service costs 7.4 times more in Colorado than in Texas. 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

Nebraska· 10th of 51

$6,558

$3,467 physician + $3,090 facility

CO $16,853TX $2,277

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.