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Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five

Louisiana 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?

$589

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $589 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $347 from a physician practice, and about $1,288 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 4 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$347$123 to $525
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,288$832 to $2,692

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,288 · 10th to 90th $457 to $3,467Professionalmedian $347 · 10th to 90th $102 to $603
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,288professional $347

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
$457.09
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$3,548.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$602.56
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$3,019.95
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$630.96
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$630.96
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$2,290.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$831.76

Where Louisiana 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.

Louisiana· 10th of 51

$589

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.