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Balloon Widening Of A Central Vein For Dialysis

Alabama rates for HCPCS 36907

Opens a narrowing in one of the large veins near the chest that carry blood away from a dialysis access, using a balloon on the tip of a catheter threaded through the dialysis circuit itself. Clearing that narrowing restores flow so the fistula or graft keeps working for dialysis. It is an added step taken during a larger dialysis-access procedure and is billed in addition to the main procedure.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Balloon Widening Of A Central Vein For Dialysis cost?

$9,157

Typical total for the visit. In Alabama, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $9,157 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $646 to the doctor who performs it, and $8,511 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$646$263 to $759
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$8,511$562 to $8,710

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $8,511 · 10th to 90th $166 to $8,710Professionalmedian $646 · 10th to 90th $138 to $977
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $8,511professional $646

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
$562.34
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,862.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$977.24
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8,511.38
Median
$8,709.64
Typical High
$8,709.64
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$776.25
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$977.24
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$977.24
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$1,380.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$891.25
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
$131.83
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$489.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$194.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$741.31
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$147.91
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$97.72

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 17.4 times more in Alabama than in Montana. 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

Alabama· 1st of 51

$9,157

$646 physician + $8,511 facility

AL $9,157MT $526

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.