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Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five

North Carolina 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?

$372

Typical negotiated rate. In North Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $372 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $372 from a physician practice, and about $955 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$372$110 to $562
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$955$372 to $4,467

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $955 · 10th to 90th $79 to $6,918Professionalmedian $372 · 10th to 90th $79 to $1,000
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $955professional $372

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
$79.43
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$8,709.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$933.25
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$1,148.15
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$812.83
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$660.69
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$6,165.95
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$794.33
Wellcare
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$1,949.84
Wellcare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,630.27
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$3,090.30

Where North Carolina 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.

North Carolina· 41st of 51

$372

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.