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Catheter Placed in a Lung Artery

Illinois 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?

$1,248

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,248 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $490 to the doctor who performs it, and $759 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$490$200 to $1,023
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$759$302 to $1,698

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $759 · 10th to 90th $155 to $3,236Professionalmedian $490 · 10th to 90th $166 to $1,288
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $759professional $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
$380.19
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$5,623.41
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,202.26
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$3,388.44
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,174.90
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$2,691.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$1,258.93
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,513.56
Hally Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$977.24
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$1,949.84
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$1,584.89
6 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
$83.18
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$457.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$117.49
Typical High
$181.97
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$676.08
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$134.90
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$16.60
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$91.20
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$147.91

Where Illinois 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

Illinois· 29th of 51

$1,248

$490 physician + $759 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.