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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 October 2026.

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

$437

Typical negotiated rate. In Arizona, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $437 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $398 from a physician practice, and about $724 from a hospital or other facility.

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.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$398$97.72 to $479
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$724$417 to $1,862

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $724 · 10th to 90th $355 to $3,388Professionalmedian $398 · 10th to 90th $85 to $1,318
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $724professional $398

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$5,623.41
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$457.09
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$2,570.40
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$524.81
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$2,691.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$524.81
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$2,570.40
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$2,691.53
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$3,311.31
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$616.60
5 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$199.53
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$79.43
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$302.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$13.18
Median
$17.38
Typical High
$60.26
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$8.91
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$39.81

Where Arizona sits

The same service costs 7.8 times more in Oklahoma than in Nebraska. 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· 30th of 51

$437

OK $1,148NE $148

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.