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Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five

Arkansas 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?

$479

Typical negotiated rate. In Arkansas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $479 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $355 from a physician practice, and about $794 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$112 to $479
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$794$589 to $1,318

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $794 · 10th to 90th $479 to $1,820Professionalmedian $355 · 10th to 90th $81 to $513
$100.0$200.0$500.0$1.0K$2.0Kfacility $794professional $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
$165.96
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,862.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$512.86
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$812.83
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$478.63
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$707.95
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,778.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$741.31

Where Arkansas sits

The same service costs 18.6 times more in California than in Maine. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Pick one to see its carriers and full range.

Arkansas $479 · 22nd of 51
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.