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Catheter Placed in a Lung Artery

Missouri 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?

$2,170

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,170 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $724 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,445 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$724$224 to $1,175
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,445$490 to $3,715

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,445 · 10th to 90th $138 to $6,166Professionalmedian $724 · 10th to 90th $166 to $2,291
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,445professional $724

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
$831.76
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$7,762.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$954.99
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$131.83
Typical High
$158.49
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$7,762.47
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$1,202.26
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$1,778.28
BCBS Kansas City
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,000.00
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$2,691.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$1,621.81
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$1,380.38
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$5,623.41
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$2,137.96
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,905.46
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
$77.62
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$467.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$31.62
Median
$51.29
Typical High
$190.55
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$707.95
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$23.44
Median
$38.02
Typical High
$141.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$15.49
Median
$25.70
Typical High
$95.50

Where Missouri 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

Missouri· 9th of 51

$2,170

$724 physician + $1,445 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.