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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 October 2026.

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

$468

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $468 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $302 from a physician practice, and about $1,445 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$302$97.72 to $479
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,445$692 to $2,754

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,445 · 10th to 90th $447 to $5,370Professionalmedian $302 · 10th to 90th $83 to $724
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,445professional $302

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
$97.72
Median
$4,365.16
Typical High
$10,471.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$478.63
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$2,691.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$676.08
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$602.56
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$2,344.23
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$1,202.26
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$776.25
5 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$239.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$19.50
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$95.50
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$354.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$70.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$9.77
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$47.86

Where New Jersey 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.

New Jersey· 16th of 51

$468

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.