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Long-Term IV Catheter Placement, Child Under Five

Virginia 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?

$468

Typical negotiated rate. In Virginia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $468 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $372 from a physician practice, and about $2,042 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 8 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$372$105 to $501
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,042$468 to $5,370

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,042 · 10th to 90th $105 to $9,550Professionalmedian $372 · 10th to 90th $91 to $1,000
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,042professional $372

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
$138.04
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$8,317.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$2,041.74
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,918.31
Median
$8,709.64
Typical High
$12,022.64
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$588.84
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,511.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$707.95
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$524.81
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,071.52
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$758.58
Sentara
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$10,000.00
Sentara
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$10,000.00
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$14,454.40
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$794.33

Where Virginia 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.

Virginia· 23rd of 51

$468

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.