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Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five

Nebraska 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 October 2026.

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

$148

Typical negotiated rate. In Nebraska, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $148 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $132 from a physician practice, and about $891 from a hospital or other facility.

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.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$132$105 to $219
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$891$562 to $3,388

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $891 · 10th to 90th $468 to $6,607Professionalmedian $132 · 10th to 90th $71 to $871
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $891professional $132

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$11,481.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$954.99
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,801.89
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$10,232.93
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$154.88
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$616.60
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,096.48
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$2,290.87
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$2,691.53
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$954.99
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$831.76
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$812.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$2,754.23
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$1,071.52

Where Nebraska sits

The same service costs 7.8 times more in Oklahoma than in Nebraska. 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.

Nebraska· 51st of 51

$148

OK $1,148NE $148

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.