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Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five

Nationwide rates for HCPCS 36572

Places a thin, flexible catheter into a vein, usually in the arm, and threads it through the vessel until its tip sits in a large vein near the heart, in a child younger than five years old. The imaging used to guide the catheter and to confirm where the tip has landed is part of the service. It gives reliable longer-term access for medicines, fluids or nutrition and for blood draws, sparing the child repeated needle sticks.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five cost?

$501

Typical negotiated rate. Nationwide, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $501 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $372 from a physician practice, and about $3,020 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 64 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$372$110 to $550
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3,020$1,202 to $5,495

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,020 · 10th to 90th $437 to $8,913Professionalmedian $372 · 10th to 90th $89 to $977
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $3,020professional $372

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
$398.11
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$8,912.51
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$977.24
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$10,715.19
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$870.96
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$16,595.87
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$933.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$5,128.61
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$831.76

What it costs in each state

The same service costs 18.6 times more in California than in Maine. 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.

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CA $3,631ME $195

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.