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Needle Placement Into An Arm Or Leg Artery

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 36140

This is the placement of a needle or small catheter directly into an artery in the arm or leg to gain access to the bloodstream, most often as the first step before a procedure such as an angiogram or other vascular treatment. It is a hands-on access procedure rather than an imaging scan on its own. Local numbing medicine is used at the site before the needle is inserted.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Needle Placement Into An Arm Or Leg Artery cost?

$525

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $525 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $363 from a physician practice, and about $1,288 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 6 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$363$120 to $617
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,288$832 to $3,236

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,288 · 10th to 90th $398 to $3,890Professionalmedian $363 · 10th to 90th $91 to $832
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,288professional $363

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
$478.63
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$3,548.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$776.25
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$478.63
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$6,606.93
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$851.14
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$3,715.35
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$194.98
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$812.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$1,318.26
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$776.25

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 3.1 times more in Oklahoma than in Montana. 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.

Louisiana· 7th of 51

$525

OK $589MT $191

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.