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PICC Line Placement With Imaging Guidance

Maine 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?

$3,315

Typical total for the visit. In Maine, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,315 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $295 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,020 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$295$105 to $525
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,020$617 to $4,074

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,020 · 10th to 90th $141 to $4,266Professionalmedian $295 · 10th to 90th $89 to $617
$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $3,020professional $295

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
$141.25
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$4,265.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$616.60
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$602.56
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$831.76
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$691.83
Martin's Point
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$4,265.80
Martin's Point
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$630.96
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,235.94
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$3,235.94
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$707.95

Where Maine sits

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

Maine· 15th of 50

$3,315

$295 physician + $3,020 facility

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.