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Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five

Tennessee 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?

$501

Typical negotiated rate. In Tennessee, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $501 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $437 from a physician practice, and about $1,445 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$437$112 to $575
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,445$891 to $2,399

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,445 · 10th to 90th $468 to $3,981Professionalmedian $437 · 10th to 90th $98 to $776
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,445professional $437

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
$467.74
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$4,073.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$724.44
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$2,089.30
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$912.01
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$12,302.69
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$758.58
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$1,949.84
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,630.27
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$3,090.30
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$2,884.03
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$851.14

Where Tennessee 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.

Tennessee· 17th of 51

$501

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.