Non-tunneled central venous catheter insertion

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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Original text from hospital filings

PR Insertion Non-Tunneled Centrally Inserted Central Venous Cath 5 Yrs/>

Payers reporting CPT 36556

69 payers file a negotiated rate for this code. Each is shown once, under the terms the most hospitals file it under; rates under different terms (billing class, payment method, setting) are never blended, so open a payer to see them all. Figures are hospital-level averages; the median is across hospitals.

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +40 other terms	642	$2,815	$2,743	$1.00 – $92,494
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +41 other terms	559	$3,163	$3,268	$1.00 – $21,532
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +38 other terms	464	$3,284	$3,590	$1.00 – $23,371
4	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	417	$3,053	$2,431	$1.00 – $12,772
5	Cigna case rate · outpatient · +38 other terms	342	$3,274	$8,458	$0.62 – $64,800
6	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	271	$2,148	$2,051	$1.00 – $10,647
7	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	185	$3,210	$2,986	$76.81 – $7,376
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	157	$2,062	$1,592	$36.37 – $23,105
9	Oscar case rate · outpatient · +25 other terms	136	$10,852	$10,344	$4,922 – $33,025
10	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	130	$3,703	$4,231	$57.10 – $10,563
11	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	117	$4,885	$4,372	$75.06 – $10,290
12	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	115	$3,064	$2,934	$31.71 – $5,898
13	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	115	$3,250	$4,191	$70.00 – $23,430
14	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	93	$3,319	$3,507	$29.25 – $12,195
15	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	91	$1,412	$1,363	$64.08 – $11,410
16	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	84	$1,516	$1,622	$1.05 – $5,515
17	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	68	$2,793	$2,748	$78.30 – $14,252
18	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	64	$3,297	$3,620	$91.33 – $10,240
19	Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +6 other terms	58	$2,434	$2,659	$2,047 – $3,160
20	Medicare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	56	$3,254	$3,040	$73.37 – $22,000
21	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	52	$462.76	$1,368	$113.21 – $7,089
22	Optum professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	51	$80.67	$114.02	$12.13 – $249.29
23	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	51	$143.42	$184.85	$12.13 – $672.73
24	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	46	$2,803	$2,311	$74.09 – $8,922
25	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	44	$1,177	$1,091	$47.85 – $5,852

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