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Catheter Placed Into The Liver's Main Vein

Alaska rates for HCPCS 36481

Threads a catheter through the skin and into the portal vein, the large vein that carries blood from the intestines into the liver. This gives direct access for measuring the pressure inside that vein, taking blood samples from it, or delivering treatment within it. Imaging is used to guide the needle and catheter into position.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Catheter Placed Into The Liver's Main Vein cost?

$3,811

Typical total for the visit. In Alaska, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,811 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,905 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,905 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$1,905$1,288 to $6,918
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,905$955 to $8,511

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,905 · 10th to 90th $513 to $12,303Professionalmedian $1,905 · 10th to 90th $447 to $6,918
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,905professional $1,905

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
$1,905.46
Median
$6,606.93
Typical High
$14,125.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$8,912.51
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$5,754.40
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$12,589.25
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$10,232.93
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$6,918.31
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,778.28
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$12,302.69
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$5,754.40
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,174.90
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$4,570.88

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 13.0 times more in Michigan than in Delaware. 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

Alaska· 5th of 51

$3,811

$1,905 physician + $1,905 facility

MI $7,905DE $608

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.