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Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five

Kansas 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?

$525

Typical negotiated rate. In Kansas, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $525 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $501 from a physician practice, and about $603 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$501$138 to $617
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$603$407 to $1,660

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $603 · 10th to 90th $309 to $3,236Professionalmedian $501 · 10th to 90th $120 to $912
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $603professional $501

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
$1,348.96
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$616.60
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$407.38
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$588.84
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$676.08
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$724.44
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$2,089.30
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$2,691.53
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$2,454.71
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$676.08
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
$52.48
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$309.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$20.89
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$123.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$467.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$91.20
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$10.47
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$61.66

Where Kansas 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.

Kansas· 10th of 51

$525

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.