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Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five

New Jersey 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?

$457

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $457 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $398 from a physician practice, and about $5,495 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 5 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$398$97.72 to $490
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$5,495$3,548 to $7,079

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,495 · 10th to 90th $1,122 to $10,471Professionalmedian $398 · 10th to 90th $87 to $1,349
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $5,495professional $398

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
$812.83
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$10,964.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$4,265.80
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$851.14
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$691.83
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$3,162.28
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$933.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,698.24
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$6,760.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$794.33

Where New Jersey 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.

New Jersey· 26th of 51

$457

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.