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Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five

Missouri 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?

$501

Typical negotiated rate. In Missouri, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $501 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $380 from a physician practice, and about $1,778 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$380$100 to $468
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,778$1,072 to $3,162

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,778 · 10th to 90th $389 to $5,248Professionalmedian $380 · 10th to 90th $89 to $871
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,778professional $380

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
$389.05
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$7,413.10
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$1,698.24
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$3,981.07
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$588.84
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$512.86
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$794.33
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$1,995.26
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$2,691.53
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$2,187.76
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$870.96

Where Missouri 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.

Missouri· 19th of 51

$501

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.