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Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five

Maryland 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?

$363

Typical physician fee. In Maryland, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $363 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $100 to $513.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $447 · 10th to 90th $275 to $1,047Professionalmedian $209 · 10th to 90th $76 to $676
$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $447professional $209

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
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$501.19
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$85.11
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$776.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$691.83
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$851.14
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$1,047.13
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$1,023.29
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$616.60
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
$48.98
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$251.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$19.50
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$100.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$380.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$75.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$9.77
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$50.12

Where Maryland 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.

Maryland· 45th of 51

$363

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.