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Catheter Placed in a Lung Artery

South 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?

$1,627

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,627 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $776 to the doctor who performs it, and $851 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$776$251 to $1,072
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$851$151 to $1,738

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $851 · 10th to 90th $95 to $3,548Professionalmedian $776 · 10th to 90th $178 to $1,349
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $851professional $776

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
$208.93
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$1,148.15
BCBS South Carolina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$851.14
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,995.26
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$1,445.44
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$1,445.44
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,348.96
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,380.38
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$2,238.72
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$1,479.11
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
$91.20
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$537.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$36.31
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$213.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$794.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$27.54
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$158.49
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$18.20
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$107.15

Where South 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

South Carolina· 19th of 51

$1,627

$776 physician + $851 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.