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Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five

Alabama 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?

$513

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $513 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $355 from a physician practice, and about $1,514 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 4 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$355$148 to $646
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,514$832 to $1,950

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,514 · 10th to 90th $537 to $2,399Professionalmedian $355 · 10th to 90th $91 to $646
$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $1,514professional $355

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
$562.34
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$645.65
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,548.82
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$2,511.89
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$467.74
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$602.56
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$2,511.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$575.44

Where Alabama sits

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.

Alabama· 14th of 51

$513

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.