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Stent Placement in a Dialysis Access Vein

Alabama rates for HCPCS 36908

Placement of a small mesh tube called a stent to hold open a narrowed section of a large vein — closer to the chest — that carries blood from a dialysis access site back toward the heart. This narrowing can reduce blood flow needed for effective dialysis treatments. The stent is delivered through a catheter threaded into the vein, without open surgery.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Stent Placement in a Dialysis Access Vein cost?

$2,577

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,577 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,259 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,318 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$1,259$282 to $2,344
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,318$776 to $8,913

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,318 · 10th to 90th $447 to $10,715Professionalmedian $1,259 · 10th to 90th $204 to $2,754
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,318professional $1,259

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
$562.34
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$2,511.89
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8,128.31
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$12,882.50
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$2,691.53
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$3,630.78
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,584.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$3,311.31

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 16.3 times more in New Hampshire than in Maryland. 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· 42nd of 50

$2,577

$1,259 physician + $1,318 facility

NH $9,543MD $584

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.