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Tunneled Central Line Placement, Child Under 5

Alabama rates for HCPCS 36557

Placement of a long-term intravenous catheter that is tunneled under the skin before entering a large central vein, allowing repeated access for medications, fluids, or blood draws over an extended period. This version is for a child younger than five years old and does not include an implanted port.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Tunneled Central Line Placement, Child Under 5 cost?

$4,335

Typical total for the visit. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,335 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,023 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,311 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,023$575 to $1,905
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,311$1,413 to $4,467

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,311 · 10th to 90th $933 to $6,607Professionalmedian $1,023 · 10th to 90th $324 to $1,905
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,311professional $1,023

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
$758.58
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,905.46
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,019.95
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$4,897.79
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,230.27
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$1,513.56
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$9,332.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,348.96

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 7.1 times more in Indiana than in West Virginia. 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

Alabama· 32nd of 50

$4,335

$1,023 physician + $3,311 facility

IN $13,677WV $1,924

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.