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Stent Placement in a Dialysis Access Vein

Louisiana 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?

$2,547

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,547 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,259 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,288 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$288 to $2,512
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,288$832 to $3,236

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,288 · 10th to 90th $288 to $4,365Professionalmedian $1,259 · 10th to 90th $240 to $2,884
$0.1$1$10$100$1K$10Kfacility $1,288professional $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
$478.63
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$3,548.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,884.03
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.02
Median
$8,912.51
Typical High
$23,988.33
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$2,344.23
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$2,951.21
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$1,318.26
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$4,365.16

Where Louisiana 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

Louisiana· 43rd of 50

$2,547

$1,259 physician + $1,288 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.