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Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five

Minnesota 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?

$525

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $525 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $479 from a physician practice, and about $1,230 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$479$191 to $912
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,230$871 to $2,239

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,230 · 10th to 90th $427 to $2,884Professionalmedian $479 · 10th to 90th $135 to $1,230
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,230professional $479

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
$85.11
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$426.58
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$977.24
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$2,818.38
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$1,148.15
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$3,715.35
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$1,584.89
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$2,884.03
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$1,380.38
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$3,162.28
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,862.09
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$5,370.32
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$1,380.38

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 13th of 51

$525

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.