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Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five

Kentucky 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?

$309

Typical negotiated rate. In Kentucky, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $309 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $263 from a physician practice, and about $1,622 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 6 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$263$87.10 to $389
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,622$398 to $3,890

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,622 · 10th to 90th $110 to $10,715Professionalmedian $263 · 10th to 90th $72 to $562
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,622professional $263

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
$109.65
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$575.44
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,801.89
Median
$10,715.19
Typical High
$11,220.18
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$346.74
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$123.03
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$125.89
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$131.83
Typical High
$131.83
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$1,778.28
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$11,481.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$741.31

Where Kentucky 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.

Kentucky· 49th of 51

$309

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.