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Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five

Iowa 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?

$575

Typical negotiated rate. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $575 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $447 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 7 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$447$126 to $661
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,399$1,148 to $4,266

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,399 · 10th to 90th $513 to $6,761Professionalmedian $447 · 10th to 90th $85 to $1,622
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,399professional $447

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
$575.44
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$2,570.40
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,096.48
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$1,621.81
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$3,890.45
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,348.96
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,584.89
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$1,202.26
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$4,073.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$1,230.27
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$891.25

Where Iowa 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.

Iowa· 11th of 51

$575

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.