RC 549
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.
Original text from hospital filings
Insertion of needle or tube into vein
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Low
$6
Average
$459
Median
$224
High
$3.5k
Showing only prices reported under the percent of billed charges methodology. Choose another in the filter below to change the chart. 40 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 23.4× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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Reflects a negotiated percentage of total billed charges.
| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St Luke's Regional Medical Center, LTD Boise, ID | $161 | $370 | $564 | 153% | 4,049–4,877 | $12 – $3.2k |
| 2 | St Luke's Nampa Medical Center, LTD Nampa, ID | $161 | $372 | $568 | 153% | 788–1,409 | $12 – $3.2k |
| 3 | St Luke's McCall, LTD McCall, ID | $155 | $390 | $605 | 155% | 612–1,197 | $10 – $3.4k |
| 4 | St Luke's Magic Valley Regional Medical Center, LTD Twin Falls, ID | $161 | $378 | $578 | 153% | 593–1,160 | $12 – $3.4k |
| 5 | St Luke's Wood River Medical Center, LTD Ketchum, ID | $153 | $389 | $604 | 155% | 459–1,080 | $10 – $3.4k |
| 6 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $70 | $70 | — | — | 1–10 | $70 – $70 |
| 7 | UCHealth Estes Valley Medical Center Estes Park, CO | $237 | $274 | $188 | 69% | 1–10 | $47 – $650 |
| 8 | Aurora Medical Center Bay Area Marinette, WI | $65 | $68 | $11 | 16% | 1–10 | $50 – $85 |
| 9 | USA Health University Hospital Mobile, AL | $19 | $22 | $5 | 25% | — | $14 – $32 |
| 10 | UPMC Western Maryland Cumberland, MD | $75 | $75 | — | — | — | $75 – $75 |
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