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Needle Or Catheter Into The Arm Artery

Minnesota rates for HCPCS 36120

Placing a needle or a thin tube into the main artery of the arm, pointed back toward the heart, to gain access to the bloodstream. The access is used to inject contrast dye for X-ray pictures of blood vessels or to deliver treatment through the catheter.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Needle Or Catheter Into The Arm Artery cost?

$794

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $794 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $631 from a physician practice, and about $1,318 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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 3 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$631$251 to $1,122
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,318$1,096 to $2,399

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,318 · 10th to 90th $331 to $3,090Professionalmedian $631 · 10th to 90th $204 to $1,585
$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $1,318professional $631

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
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$3,981.07
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,698.24
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$3,090.30
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,380.38
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$870.96
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$2,089.30

Where Minnesota sits

The same service costs 20.4 times more in California than in South Carolina. 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.

Minnesota· 8th of 39

$794

CA $4,169SC $204

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.