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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Placement of an IV catheter in a vein

CPT 36000the billing code this page is about

Insertion of a needle or small catheter into a vein to allow fluids, medicine, or contrast to be given; covers the placement itself, not what is infused.

Hospitals typically charge $126 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,148 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $147. Most fall between $50 and $323 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,148
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 2,148 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$28$59$126$273$543

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($28 vs $543).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $28: 108 hospitals$19$28 – $40: 121 hospitals$40 – $59: 199 hospitals$40$59 – $85: 232 hospitals$85 – $124: 299 hospitals$85$124 – $181: 237 hospitals$181 – $264: 288 hospitals$181$264 – $384: 207 hospitals$384 – $560: 153 hospitals$384$560 – $815: 92 hospitals$560median $126price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,936 of 2,148 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$28108
$28$40121
$40$59199
$59$85232
$85$124299
$124$181237
$181$264288
$264$384207
$384$560153
$560$81592

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $126.

Alaska: median $195 across 12 hospitalsAK$195Maine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $71 across 11 hospitalsVT$71New Hampshire: median $27 across 12 hospitalsNH$27Washington: median $89 across 65 hospitalsWA$89Idaho: median $133 across 16 hospitalsID$133Montana: median $49 across 19 hospitalsMT$49North Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $76 across 58 hospitalsMN$76Illinois: median $173 across 77 hospitalsIL$173Wisconsin: median $90 across 94 hospitalsWI$90Michigan: median $155 across 67 hospitalsMI$155New York: median $109 across 72 hospitalsNY$109Massachusetts: median $160 across 42 hospitalsMA$160Oregon: median $84 across 46 hospitalsOR$84Nevada: median $314 across 12 hospitalsNV$314Wyoming: median $101 across 10 hospitalsWY$101South Dakota: median $149 across 15 hospitalsSD$149Iowa: median $82 across 50 hospitalsIA$82Indiana: median $111 across 54 hospitalsIN$111Ohio: median $186 across 107 hospitalsOH$186Pennsylvania: median $103 across 77 hospitalsPA$103New Jersey: median $331 across 35 hospitalsNJ$331Connecticut: median $136 across 19 hospitalsCT$136Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $290 across 155 hospitalsCA$290Utah: median $225 across 28 hospitalsUT$225Colorado: median $139 across 40 hospitalsCO$139Nebraska: median $101 across 42 hospitalsNE$101Missouri: median $142 across 52 hospitalsMO$142Kentucky: median $134 across 33 hospitalsKY$134West Virginia: median $76 across 32 hospitalsWV$76Virginia: median $81 across 41 hospitalsVA$81Maryland: median $212 across 11 hospitalsMD$212Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $73 across 40 hospitalsAZ$73New Mexico: median $101 across 20 hospitalsNM$101Kansas: median $84 across 59 hospitalsKS$84Arkansas: median $91 across 19 hospitalsAR$91Tennessee: median $108 across 30 hospitalsTN$108North Carolina: median $201 across 50 hospitalsNC$201South Carolina: median $201 across 31 hospitalsSC$201Oklahoma: median $53 across 30 hospitalsOK$53Louisiana: median $47 across 39 hospitalsLA$47Mississippi: median $82 across 27 hospitalsMS$82Alabama: median $163 across 23 hospitalsAL$163Georgia: median $124 across 62 hospitalsGA$124Hawaii: median $99 across 15 hospitalsHI$99Texas: median $200 across 167 hospitalsTX$200Florida: median $248 across 103 hospitalsFL$248
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $126. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ35$331+163%$128 – $4,881
Nevada NV12$314+149%$111 – $473
California CA155$290+130%$102 – $543
Florida FL103$248+97%$146 – $525
Utah UT28$225+79%$80 – $243
Maryland MD11$212+69%$62 – $368
North Carolina NC50$201+60%$30 – $264
South Carolina SC31$201+60%$79 – $209
Texas TX167$200+59%$57 – $313
Alaska AK12$195+54%$124 – $376
Ohio OH107$186+48%$85 – $393
Illinois IL77$173+37%$71 – $272
Alabama AL23$163+29%$47 – $370
Massachusetts MA42$160+27%$26 – $237
Michigan MI67$155+23%$52 – $563
South Dakota SD15$149+18%$88 – $222
Missouri MO52$142+12%$53 – $464
Colorado CO40$139+10%$58 – $398
Connecticut CT19$136+8%$53 – $197
Kentucky KY33$134+6%$51 – $1,114
Idaho ID16$133+6%$53 – $161
Georgia GA62$124−2%$72 – $273
Indiana IN54$111−12%$51 – $518
New York NY72$109−13%$46 – $739
Tennessee TN30$108−15%$24 – $133
Pennsylvania PA77$103−18%$73 – $302
Nebraska NE42$101−20%$59 – $200
New Mexico NM20$101−20%$47 – $183
Wyoming WY10$101−20%$11 – $149
Hawaii HI15$99−21%$35 – $141
Arkansas AR19$91−28%$28 – $234
Wisconsin WI94$90−29%$48 – $134
Washington WA65$89−30%$49 – $151
Kansas KS59$84−33%$59 – $115
Oregon OR46$84−33%$35 – $260
Mississippi MS27$82−35%$16 – $165
Iowa IA50$82−35%$29 – $282
Virginia VA41$81−36%$51 – $430
Minnesota MN58$76−40%$29 – $229
West Virginia WV32$76−40%$40 – $195
Arizona AZ40$73−42%$27 – $104
Vermont VT11$71−43%$48 – $230
Oklahoma OK30$53−58%$25 – $111
Montana MT19$49−61%$30 – $132
Louisiana LA39$47−62%$13 – $101
New Hampshire NH12$27−79%$10 – $81
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $126.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,572$155$55 – $377
Children’s61$160$95 – $332
Critical access507$85$33 – $184
Ownership
For-profit234$146$56 – $402
Government372$94$37 – $223
Non-profit1,534$137$52 – $339
System affiliation
Part of a system1,766$140$51 – $356
Independent382$88$41 – $214

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$208
Median cash price$126
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

1,590 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $141 and the average of the middle 60% is $159; most fall between $55 and $337.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,590 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$33$69$141$275$543

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($33 vs $543).

Of the 1,726 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,590 gave a usable cash price; 44 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 91 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,148 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (54%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,370 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,148
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here80
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded140
Hospitals that filed this code2,370

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other vascular catheterization, not heart family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Place Needle in Vein.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Placement of an IV catheter in a vein (CPT 36000) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36000-placement-of-an-iv-catheter-in-a-vein