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Catheter Placed in a Lung Artery

Georgia 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?

$765

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $765 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $490 to the doctor who performs it, and $275 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$490$209 to $1,072
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$275$123 to $1,995

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $275 · 10th to 90th $83 to $4,266Professionalmedian $490 · 10th to 90th $174 to $1,622
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $275professional $490

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
$169.82
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$7,585.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$2,137.96
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$131.83
Typical High
$131.83
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7,943.28
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$7,943.28
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$1,548.82
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$2,454.71
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$4,265.80
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$1,862.09
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,258.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$1,778.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,949.84
5 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$489.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$194.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$741.31
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$147.91
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$16.98
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$97.72

Where Georgia 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

Georgia· 44th of 51

$765

$490 physician + $275 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.