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Placement of a Long-Term IV Line Through the Arm

North Dakota rates for HCPCS 36569

Places a long, thin catheter into a vein in the arm and advances it until the tip sits in a large vein close to the heart. Once in place it allows medicines, fluids, nutrition or repeated blood samples to be given over weeks or months without fresh needle sticks each time. It is done under local anesthetic in a treatment room or at the bedside, and the line is secured to the skin with a dressing.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Placement of a Long-Term IV Line Through the Arm cost?

$162

Typical facility fee. In North Dakota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $162 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $95.50 to $2,455.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $162 · 10th to 90th $95 to $8,511
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $162

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
$95.50
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$8,511.38
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$288.40
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$3,388.44

Where North Dakota sits

The same service costs 33.9 times more in California 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.

North Dakota· 50th of 51

$162

CA $5,495MT $162

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.