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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 July 2026.

How much does Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five cost?

$355

Typical physician fee. In Maryland, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $355 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $97.72 to $501.

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 $347 · 10th to 90th $347 to $427Professionalmedian $355 · 10th to 90th $85 to $537
$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $347professional $355

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$524.81
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$95.50
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$346.74
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$707.95
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$851.14
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$426.58
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$741.31
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$616.60

Where Maryland 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.

Maryland· 45th of 51

$355

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.