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Catheter Placed in a Lung Artery

Texas 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 July 2026.

How much does Catheter Placed in a Lung Artery cost?

$1,905

Typical facility fee. In Texas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,905 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $871 to $3,715.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,905 · 10th to 90th $195 to $6,918
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,905

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$7,413.10
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$2,884.03
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$4,265.80
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$269.15
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$8,709.64
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$1,548.82
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$1,584.89
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$2,398.83

Where Texas sits

The same service costs 16.6 times more in New Jersey than in Wyoming. 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.

Texas· 23rd of 49

$1,905

NJ $4,898WY $295

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.