Non-tunneled central venous catheter insertion at Bertrand Chaffee Hospital

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.

Model: claude-haiku-5-5
Provider: anthropic
API: message_batches
Reasoning effort: low
Max output tokens: 4096
Prompt version (hash): 444523875572
Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

INSERT NON-TUNNEL CV CATH

SPRINGVILLE, NY

See all hospitals reporting CPT 36556 →

SharePost on X LinkedIn

Pricing by billing methodology

Price type

How this price compares nationally

Bertrand Chaffee Hospital’s median price of $199 is 93% below the median hospital's median price ($2.9k), higher than 5% of the 2,457 hospitals reporting CPT 36556. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.

Payers reporting CPT 36556 at Bertrand Chaffee Hospital

Negotiated rates from the hospital’s own file: 8 payers, 13 plan rates. A facility fee, a professional fee, a per diem and a case rate are different bills, so each is listed on its own. Open a payer to see it across hospitals.

Filter by billing methodology

Filter by billing class

#
1	Aetna aetna ins. percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges	$159.02	$162.07	$145.56 – $181.64
2	Cigna cigna commercial percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges	$159.02	$162.07	$145.56 – $181.64
3	Aetna aetna medicare fee schedule · both	$198.61	$198.61	$198.61 – $198.61
4	Cigna cigna fee schedule · both	$198.61	$198.61	$198.61 – $198.61
5	Humana humana gold fee schedule · both	$198.61	$198.61	$198.61 – $198.61
6	Optum va optum community care fee schedule · both	$198.61	$198.61	$198.61 – $198.61
7	Tricare wps tricare for life fee schedule · both	$198.61	$198.61	$198.61 – $198.61
8	UnitedHealthcare aarp/united healthcare fee schedule · both	$198.61	$198.61	$198.61 – $198.61
9	WellCare wellcare fee schedule · both	$198.61	$198.61	$198.61 – $198.61
10	Blue Cross Blue Shield bc of wny hmo fee schedule · both	$635.73	$635.73	$102.84 – $1,169
11	Blue Cross Blue Shield bc of wny ppo fee schedule · both	$1,461	$1,008	$102.84 – $1,461
12	Blue Cross Blue Shield wny bcbs essential plan fee schedule · both	$1,461	$1,008	$102.84 – $1,461
13	Blue Cross Blue Shield blue cross freedom blue fee schedule · both	$1,048	$1,048	$1,048 – $1,048

Last updated: Oct 1, 2026

Compare to other hospitals

See Non-tunneled central venous catheter insertion pricing across every hospital in the network reporting it, or ask Claude or any MCP client directly — see how to connect.