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Catheter Placed in a Lung Artery

New Mexico 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?

$936

Typical total for the visit. In New Mexico, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $936 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $447 to the doctor who performs it, and $490 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$447$219 to $1,072
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$490$219 to $1,047

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $490 · 10th to 90th $200 to $1,380Professionalmedian $447 · 10th to 90th $166 to $1,413
$50$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $490professional $447

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$7,762.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$1,380.38
BCBS New Mexico
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$1,258.93
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$602.56
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$1,380.38
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,584.89
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$1,258.93
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$1,412.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$1,318.26
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$1,513.56

Where New Mexico 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

New Mexico· 43rd of 51

$936

$447 physician + $490 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.