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Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five

South 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 South Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $372 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $355 from a physician practice, and about $3,020 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$355$112 to $513
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3,020$513 to $7,943

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,020 · 10th to 90th $112 to $21,878Professionalmedian $355 · 10th to 90th $79 to $646
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $3,020professional $355

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
$112.20
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$21,877.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$524.81
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,548.82
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$478.63
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$426.58
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$831.76
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$912.01
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$13,803.84
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$794.33

Where South 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.

South Carolina· 40th 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.