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Chemotherapy Into the Chest Cavity

Rhode Island rates for HCPCS 96440

Delivers chemotherapy directly into the space between the lung and the chest wall, and includes draining fluid from that space with a needle during the same session. It is used when cancer involving the lining of the lung keeps causing fluid to collect. Putting the drug straight into the space treats the surface where the fluid is forming.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Chemotherapy Into the Chest Cavity cost?

$562

Typical negotiated rate. In Rhode Island, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $562 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $490 from a physician practice, and about $692 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$490$195 to $1,000
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$692$537 to $759

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $692 · 10th to 90th $380 to $5,495Professionalmedian $490 · 10th to 90th $141 to $1,148
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $692professional $490

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$5,495.41
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$1,047.13
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$691.83
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,258.93
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$1,318.26
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$1,698.24
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$724.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$1,288.25

Where Rhode Island sits

The same service costs 3.7 times more in New York 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.

Rhode Island· 20th of 51

$562

NY $955MD $257

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.