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Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five

South Dakota 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 South Dakota, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $468 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $427 from a physician practice, and about $513 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$427$182 to $871
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$513$447 to $646

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $513 · 10th to 90th $132 to $759Professionalmedian $427 · 10th to 90th $115 to $1,175
$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $513professional $427

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
$91.20
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$4,365.16
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$426.58
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$691.83
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$1,096.48
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$758.58
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,230.27
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$954.99
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$549.54
Sanford Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$707.95
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$758.58
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$1,230.27
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$933.25
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
$38.90
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$213.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$15.49
Median
$18.20
Typical High
$85.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$58.88
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$323.59
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$11.75
Median
$13.80
Typical High
$64.57
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$7.76
Median
$9.12
Typical High
$42.66

Where South Dakota 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.

South Dakota· 20th 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.