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Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five

Arizona 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?

$468

Typical negotiated rate. In Arizona, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $468 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $398 from a physician practice, and about $2,399 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 5 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$398$102 to $525
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,399$1,445 to $4,677

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,399 · 10th to 90th $589 to $5,623Professionalmedian $398 · 10th to 90th $89 to $759
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $2,399professional $398

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
$1,445.44
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$6,606.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$758.58
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$3,467.37
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$1,258.93
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$616.60
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$616.60
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$2,691.53
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$1,318.26
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$3,235.94
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$616.60

Where Arizona 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.

Arizona· 25th of 51

$468

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.