# Flushing an implanted drug port in Macon, GA

Billing code `96523`. Prices for this code at 7 hospitals within 35 miles of Macon, taken from the machine-readable standard charge files each hospital is required to publish under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50).

Source page: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/macon/flushing-an-implanted-drug-port

HC IRRIGATION OF IMPLANTED VENOUS ACCESS DEVICE CHARGE

## Before quoting any figure below

- **Hospital charges only.** The surgeon, anaesthetist, radiologist and pathologist bill separately and appear in no hospital price file, by construction. Every figure below is part of a total, never the total.
- **A negotiated rate is not a bill.** It is what a hospital and an insurer agreed. What a patient owes depends on their deductible, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum.
- **Each hospital's figure is a median across its own plans.** The spread inside one hospital is often wider than the gap between two of them.
- **"not mentioned" is not $0.** It means this hospital's file does not label a row that way. Silence is not a statement that the charge does not exist.
- **A hospital absent from the table says nothing about its prices.** It may publish this code under a revenue or drug code this site cannot map to a procedure.

A procedure code is billed twice -- once by the hospital for its own costs, once by the doctor for their work -- and hospitals publish different sides of that split under the same code. Of the hospitals here, 1 publish a facility charge; 3 publish both, mixed together; 3 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lowest reported | $54 |
| Typical | $67 |
| Highest reported | $176 |

Too few hospitals here for a decile to mean anything, so these are the true extremes and a single unusual figure can set one of them.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emory Houston Hospital Warner Robins | WARNER ROBINS (14.3 mi) | 2/5 | $54 | $54 | not mentioned | $239 | $53 | $112 | 7 |
| Atrium Health Navicent the Medical Center | MACON (3.2 mi) | 2/5 | see split | $83 | $22 | $68 | $21 | $611 | 51 |
| Atrium Health Navicent Peach | BYRON (16.2 mi) | 1/5 | see split | $72 | $24 | $55 | $23 | $102 | 50 |
| Navicent Health Baldwin | MILLEDGEVILLE (26.5 mi) | 2/5 | see split | $162 | $21 | $106 | $21 | $181 | 49 |
| Jasper Memorial Hospital | MONTICELLO (30.4 mi) | not rated | $85 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $38 | $54 | $322 | 19 |
| Coliseum Medical Centers | MACON (6.9 mi) | 3/5 | $176 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $78 | $18 | $261 | 14 |
| Piedmont Macon North Hospital | MACON (7.8 mi) | 4/5 | $176 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $78 | $24 | $261 | 14 |

## Self-pay

Self-pay is what the hospital charges someone paying themselves rather than through insurance. Paying self-pay usually does not count toward a deductible, so it can cost less for one service and more across a year. Every other figure here is what an insurer pays, not what a patient would.

At 4 of the 7 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 3 it is higher.

## Others in anesthesia & other medical services

- [IV infusion therapy, up to 1 hour](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/iv-infusion-therapy-up-to-1-hour) -- 107 hospitals, typically $260
- [IV chemotherapy, up to 1 hour](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/iv-chemotherapy-up-to-1-hour) -- 87 hospitals, typically $480
- [Chemotherapy injection under the skin or into muscle](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/chemotherapy-injection-under-the-skin-or-into-muscle) -- 83 hospitals, typically $132
- [Hormone therapy injection under the skin or into muscle](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/hormone-therapy-injection-under-the-skin-or-into-muscle) -- 78 hospitals, typically $120
- [Extended IV chemotherapy](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/extended-iv-chemotherapy) -- 68 hospitals, typically $538
- [Genetic counselling](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/genetic-counselling) -- 2 hospitals, typically $121

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Compiled by Clearcharge (clearcharge.org) from each hospital's machine-readable standard-charge file. When quoting a figure, cite the source page above. The hospital files behind these figures state data through dates from 2025-11-19 to 2026-07-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.