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Umbilical Vein Catheter Placement (Newborn)

Tennessee rates for HCPCS 36510

This procedure places a small tube into a vein in a newborn's umbilical cord stump to give fluids, medications, or draw blood, or to perform other treatments. It uses a natural access point available only in the first days after birth.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Umbilical Vein Catheter Placement (Newborn) cost?

$107

Typical negotiated rate. In Tennessee, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $107 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $95.50 from a physician practice, and about $692 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 5 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$95.50$70.79 to $138
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$692$151 to $2,399

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $692 · 10th to 90th $107 to $4,074Professionalmedian $95 · 10th to 90th $58 to $209
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $692professional $95

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
$83.18
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$7,585.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$208.93
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$407.38
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$181.97
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$169.82
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,288.25
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,071.52
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$2,137.96
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$199.53

Where Tennessee sits

The same service costs 14.8 times more in California than in Rhode Island. 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.

Tennessee· 20th of 51

$107

CA $1,122RI $75.86

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.