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Catheter Placed in a Lung Artery

Kansas 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?

$1,382

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,382 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $955 to the doctor who performs it, and $427 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$955$240 to $1,259
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$427$288 to $1,445

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $427 · 10th to 90th $107 to $3,162Professionalmedian $955 · 10th to 90th $170 to $1,738
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $427professional $955

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
$1,258.93
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,258.93
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$426.58
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$954.99
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$2,691.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,380.38
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$1,445.44
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$5,623.41
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$1,819.70
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,288.25
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
$97.72
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$630.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$251.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$933.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$28.84
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$186.21
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$19.50
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$125.89

Where Kansas 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

Kansas· 26th of 51

$1,382

$955 physician + $427 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.