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Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five

Illinois 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 Illinois, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $437 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $372 from a physician practice, and about $813 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$372$126 to $575
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$813$589 to $1,445

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $813 · 10th to 90th $468 to $2,692Professionalmedian $372 · 10th to 90th $95 to $741
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $813professional $372

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
$346.74
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$5,623.41
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$588.84
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,348.96
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$741.31
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$933.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$602.56
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$1,737.80
Hally Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$478.63
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$2,951.21
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$831.76
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
$131.83
Typical High
$218.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$87.10
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$323.59
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$13.49
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$64.57
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$8.91
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$43.65

Where Illinois 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.

Illinois· 26th 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.