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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system

Unlisted procedure on the lungs or lung lining

CPT 32999the billing code this page is about

Used when a surgery or treatment involving the lungs or the membrane around them has no specific billing code of its own.

Hospitals typically charge $1,045 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,042 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,140. Most fall between $596 and $2,134 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,042
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 1,042 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$331$676$1,045$1,798$3,516

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($331 vs $3,516).

How the prices are spread

$227 – $311: 38 hospitals$227$311 – $427: 60 hospitals$427 – $586: 56 hospitals$427$586 – $803: 157 hospitals$803 – $1,101: 184 hospitals$803$1,101 – $1,509: 161 hospitals$1,509 – $2,070: 123 hospitals$1,509$2,070 – $2,838: 89 hospitals$2,838 – $3,891: 43 hospitals$2,838$3,891 – $5,335: 30 hospitals$3,891median $1,045price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (941 of 1,042 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$227$31138
$311$42760
$427$58656
$586$803157
$803$1,101184
$1,101$1,509161
$1,509$2,070123
$2,070$2,83889
$2,838$3,89143
$3,891$5,33530

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$641
Median cash price$1,045
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.63×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,045.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,373 across 29 hospitalsWA$1,373Idaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $637 across 18 hospitalsMN$637Illinois: median $1,150 across 52 hospitalsIL$1,150Wisconsin: median $1,236 across 43 hospitalsWI$1,236Michigan: median $1,236 across 44 hospitalsMI$1,236New York: median $929 across 45 hospitalsNY$929Massachusetts: median $1,055 across 27 hospitalsMA$1,055Oregon: median $1,665 across 13 hospitalsOR$1,665Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $885 across 13 hospitalsIA$885Indiana: median $924 across 22 hospitalsIN$924Ohio: median $1,137 across 74 hospitalsOH$1,137Pennsylvania: median $908 across 59 hospitalsPA$908New Jersey: median $2,450 across 47 hospitalsNJ$2,450Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,914 across 89 hospitalsCA$1,914Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $950 across 27 hospitalsCO$950Nebraska: median $963 across 12 hospitalsNE$963Missouri: median $1,070 across 19 hospitalsMO$1,070Kentucky: median $2,483 across 17 hospitalsKY$2,483West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,088 across 28 hospitalsVA$1,088Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $265 across 11 hospitalsAZ$265New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $234 across 13 hospitalsTN$234North Carolina: median $483 across 31 hospitalsNC$483South Carolina: median $797 across 22 hospitalsSC$797Oklahoma: median $887 across 17 hospitalsOK$887Louisiana: median $355 across 14 hospitalsLA$355Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $636 across 37 hospitalsGA$636Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $888 across 80 hospitalsTX$888Florida: median $1,661 across 51 hospitalsFL$1,661
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,045. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY17$2,483+137%$663 – $3,104
New Jersey NJ47$2,450+134%$685 – $5,419
California CA89$1,914+83%$954 – $3,662
Oregon OR13$1,665+59%$873 – $3,814
Florida FL51$1,661+59%$621 – $2,462
Washington WA29$1,373+31%$279 – $2,211
Michigan MI44$1,236+18%$653 – $2,293
Wisconsin WI43$1,236+18%$918 – $8,640
Illinois IL52$1,150+10%$560 – $1,905
Ohio OH74$1,137+9%$728 – $1,778
Virginia VA28$1,088+4%$578 – $1,217
Missouri MO19$1,070+2%$520 – $1,208
Massachusetts MA27$1,055+1%$499 – $1,411
Nebraska NE12$963−8%$730 – $2,520
Colorado CO27$950−9%$821 – $1,234
New York NY45$929−11%$732 – $1,338
Indiana IN22$924−12%$362 – $1,778
Pennsylvania PA59$908−13%$568 – $1,658
Texas TX80$888−15%$270 – $1,699
Oklahoma OK17$887−15%$630 – $1,422
Iowa IA13$885−15%$632 – $1,432
South Carolina SC22$797−24%$797 – $1,436
Minnesota MN18$637−39%$377 – $1,781
Georgia GA37$636−39%$579 – $1,890
North Carolina NC31$483−54%$318 – $1,103
Louisiana LA14$355−66%$157 – $1,012
Arizona AZ11$265−75%$228 – $770
Tennessee TN13$234−78%$56 – $738
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $1,045.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care936$1,041$604 – $2,153
Children’s24$1,327$858 – $2,277
Critical access76$978$525 – $1,432
Ownership
For-profit75$1,008$483 – $1,736
Government127$812$365 – $1,680
Non-profit834$1,112$630 – $2,175
System affiliation
Part of a system938$1,046$615 – $2,153
Independent104$868$493 – $1,905

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,891
Median cash price$1,045
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

854 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,071 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,150; most fall between $574 and $1,986.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 854 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$318$662$1,071$1,781$3,074

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($318 vs $3,074).

Of the 916 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 854 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 37 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,042 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,108 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,042
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here29
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded36
Hospitals that filed this code1,108

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Insertion Pleural-Venous Shunt C/T 49425.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Unlisted procedure on the lungs or lung lining (CPT 32999) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-32999-unlisted-procedure-on-the-lungs-or-lung-lining