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Catheter Placed in a Lung Artery

North Carolina 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?

$1,013

Typical total for the visit. In North Carolina, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,013 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $794 to the doctor who performs it, and $219 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$794$263 to $1,349
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$219$123 to $794

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $219 · 10th to 90th $81 to $1,380Professionalmedian $794 · 10th to 90th $186 to $2,138
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $219professional $794

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
$147.91
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$7,413.10
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,348.96
BCBS North Carolina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$2,238.72
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$2,290.87
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$1,584.89
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$954.99
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,318.26
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$1,096.48
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,778.28
7 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
$74.13
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$407.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$29.51
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$162.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$602.56
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$37.15
Typical High
$123.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$14.79
Median
$24.55
Typical High
$81.28
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$3,388.44
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
51 · Multiple procedures
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$1,122.02

Where North Carolina 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

North Carolina· 41st of 51

$1,013

$794 physician + $219 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.