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PICC Line Placement With Imaging Guidance

Nationwide rates for HCPCS 36573

A thin, flexible catheter is threaded through a vein, usually in the arm, until its tip reaches a large vein near the heart, allowing medications, nutrition, or blood draws over an extended period without repeated needle sticks. This version is placed using imaging guidance to confirm correct positioning as the catheter is advanced.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does PICC Line Placement With Imaging Guidance cost?

$3,314

Typical total for the visit. Nationwide, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,314 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $363 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,951 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

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 71 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$363$105 to $525
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,951$1,288 to $5,129

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,951 · 10th to 90th $417 to $8,318Professionalmedian $363 · 10th to 90th $83 to $1,023
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,951professional $363

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
$331.13
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$7,413.10
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$616.60
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$131.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$1,096.48
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$12,022.64
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$831.76
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$19,952.62
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$104.71
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$25.70
Median
$25.70
Typical High
$25.70
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$954.99
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$6,760.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$794.33

What it costs in each state

The same service costs 8.6 times more in Wyoming than in North Dakota. 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.

Physician feeFacility fee

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WY $7,012ND $815

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.