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Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five

Michigan 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 negotiated rate. In Michigan, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $355 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $257 from a physician practice, and about $2,089 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$257$107 to $479
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,089$2,042 to $4,898

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,089 · 10th to 90th $479 to $4,898Professionalmedian $257 · 10th to 90th $89 to $513
$50$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $2,089professional $257

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
$478.63
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$4,897.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$501.19
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$77.62
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$114.82
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$114.82
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$691.83
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$4,897.79
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$575.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$4,265.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$660.69

Where Michigan 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.

Michigan· 44th 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.