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Catheter Placed in a Lung Artery

Delaware rates for HCPCS 36014

Threads a catheter through a vein and the right side of the heart into the artery supplying one lung, so pressures can be measured, dye injected, or treatment delivered at that site. X-ray guidance is used to steer it into position. Placing the catheter is the service; any imaging or treatment given through it is counted separately.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Catheter Placed in a Lung Artery cost?

$602

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $602 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $457 to the doctor who performs it, and $145 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 3 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$457$178 to $1,000
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$145$93.33 to $1,000

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $145 · 10th to 90th $87 to $1,698Professionalmedian $457 · 10th to 90th $155 to $1,096
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $145professional $457

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). 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
None
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$7,244.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$1,000.00
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$2,290.87
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$1,122.02
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$1,698.24
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$1,202.26

Where Delaware sits

The same service costs 9.9 times more in New York than in Kentucky. 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

Delaware· 48th of 51

$602

$457 physician + $145 facility

NY $4,974KY $504

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.