IV catheter insertion into a vein

Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.

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Provider: anthropic
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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

HC INTRO OF NEEDLE OR CATH,VEIN

Payers reporting CPT 36000

Payer pricing summary

Low

Average

$1.1k

Median

$264

High

$14.8k

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1	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	57	$32	$94	$116	123%	99	$1 – $615
2	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	144	$35	$335	$1.1k	340%	76–85	$1 – $12.8k
3	UnitedHealthcare case rate · outpatient · +35 other terms	423	$1.7k	$1.9k	$1.9k	96%	16–25	$1 – $22.4k
4	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	156	$35	$1.5k	$4.0k	257%	1–10	$1 – $33.6k
5	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	87	$42	$89	$199	225%	1–10	$1 – $1.7k
6	Cigna case rate · outpatient · +31 other terms	152	$6.2k	$9.5k	$9.3k	99%	—	$1 – $40.7k
7	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	138	$65	$1.2k	$2.9k	237%	—	$0 – $15.6k
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	96	$31	$42	$162	387%	—	$4 – $2.1k
9	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	74	$284	$556	$1.8k	315%	—	$8 – $18.6k
10	Healthcare Highways percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +2 other terms	52	$239	$398	$697	175%	—	$18 – $5.5k
11	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	37	$43	$149	$120	81%	—	$8 – $576
12	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	33	$86	$116	$172	148%	—	$11 – $731
13	Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +6 other terms	33	$948	$944	$8	1%	—	$929 – $948
14	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	32	$10	$13	$10	72%	—	$8 – $50
15	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	31	$27	$76	$86	112%	—	$7 – $243
16	Medcost facility · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +8 other terms	28	$349	$326	$123	38%	—	$37 – $519
17	Optum professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	28	$29	$21	$11	53%	—	$6 – $32
18	WellCare fee schedule · both · +21 other terms	27	$8	$54	$92	170%	—	$0 – $294
19	Baylor Scott White Health Plan facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	26	$198	$176	$37	21%	—	$51 – $214
20	Oscar case rate · outpatient · +21 other terms	25	$3.4k	$3.5k	$1.2k	33%	—	$2.1k – $7.5k
21	Caresource facility · case rate · outpatient · +20 other terms	24	$37	$72	$89	123%	—	$22 – $303
22	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	24	$330	$4.8k	$14.3k	298%	—	$5 – $50k
23	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	23	$230	$621	$2.5k	395%	—	$100 – $16.1k
24	Phcs fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	22	$357	$750	$2.6k	352%	—	$56 – $16.1k
25	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	21	$31	$32	$1	2%	—	$29 – $32

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