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Blood draw from a neck or groin vein in a child under 3

CPT 36400the billing code this page is about

A blood sample taken from the jugular or femoral vein of a child younger than three years, requiring a physician or other qualified clinician to perform the stick.

Hospitals typically charge $71 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 900 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $79. Most fall between $34 and $164 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
900
States
49
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 900 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
$25$42$71$131$355

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $355).

How the prices are spread

$16 – $23: 36 hospitals$16$23 – $34: 87 hospitals$34 – $50: 118 hospitals$34$50 – $73: 177 hospitals$73 – $107: 120 hospitals$73$107 – $157: 135 hospitals$157 – $231: 59 hospitals$157$231 – $340: 24 hospitals$340 – $500: 45 hospitals$340$500 – $735: 11 hospitals$500median $71price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (812 of 900 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$16$2336
$23$3487
$34$50118
$50$73177
$73$107120
$107$157135
$157$23159
$231$34024
$340$50045
$500$73511

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $71.

Alaska: median $165 across 10 hospitalsAK$165Maine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $62 across 32 hospitalsWA$62Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $48 across 11 hospitalsMT$48North Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $86 across 33 hospitalsMN$86Illinois: median $62 across 32 hospitalsIL$62Wisconsin: median $92 across 41 hospitalsWI$92Michigan: median $68 across 24 hospitalsMI$68New York: median $57 across 29 hospitalsNY$57Massachusetts: median $59 across 16 hospitalsMA$59Oregon: median $60 across 34 hospitalsOR$60Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $320 across 15 hospitalsSD$320Iowa: median $68 across 40 hospitalsIA$68Indiana: median $56 across 27 hospitalsIN$56Ohio: median $74 across 17 hospitalsOH$74Pennsylvania: median $65 across 30 hospitalsPA$65New Jersey: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: median $172 across 10 hospitalsCT$172Rhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $144 across 81 hospitalsCA$144Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $914 across 22 hospitalsCO$914Nebraska: median $57 across 34 hospitalsNE$57Missouri: median $42 across 21 hospitalsMO$42Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $101 across 14 hospitalsVA$101Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $365 across 16 hospitalsAZ$365New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $41 across 12 hospitalsKS$41Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $355 across 20 hospitalsNC$355South Carolina: median $101 across 13 hospitalsSC$101Oklahoma: median $32 across 22 hospitalsOK$32Louisiana: median $42 across 15 hospitalsLA$42Mississippi: median $38 across 15 hospitalsMS$38Alabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $34 across 40 hospitalsGA$34Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $109 across 55 hospitalsTX$109Florida: median $129 across 28 hospitalsFL$129
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $71. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO22$914+1191%$68 – $9,141
Arizona AZ16$365+415%$20 – $365
North Carolina NC20$355+401%$28 – $355
South Dakota SD15$320+352%$86 – $1,079
Connecticut CT10$172+142%$86 – $280
Alaska AK10$165+133%$43 – $226
California CA81$144+104%$69 – $169
Florida FL28$129+82%$28 – $685
Texas TX55$109+54%$81 – $109
Virginia VA14$101+43%$18 – $101
South Carolina SC13$101+42%$101 – $101
Wisconsin WI41$92+30%$67 – $126
Minnesota MN33$86+22%$41 – $144
Ohio OH17$74+5%$30 – $103
Michigan MI24$68−4%$24 – $126
Iowa IA40$68−5%$41 – $136
Pennsylvania PA30$65−8%$12 – $90
Washington WA32$62−12%$53 – $197
Illinois IL32$62−13%$26 – $206
Oregon OR34$60−15%$50 – $86
Massachusetts MA16$59−17%$44 – $198
Nebraska NE34$57−20%$35 – $149
New York NY29$57−20%$26 – $109
Indiana IN27$56−20%$47 – $155
Montana MT11$48−33%$34 – $89
Missouri MO21$42−40%$28 – $46
Louisiana LA15$42−41%$16 – $50
Kansas KS12$41−42%$31 – $77
Mississippi MS15$38−46%$16 – $49
Georgia GA40$34−52%$30 – $126
Oklahoma OK22$32−56%$25 – $32
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $71.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care605$74$32 – $168
Children’s28$92$28 – $213
Critical access267$65$41 – $137
Ownership
For-profit70$70$34 – $190
Government185$61$33 – $149
Non-profit645$77$34 – $167
System affiliation
Part of a system725$77$36 – $168
Independent175$57$28 – $131

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$113
Median cash price$71
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

679 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $79 and the average of the middle 60% is $89; most fall between $37 and $168.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 679 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
$26$45$79$146$355

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($26 vs $355).

Of the 735 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 679 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 26 a list price only.

How complete is this

900 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (23%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,003 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted900
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here41
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded60
Hospitals that filed this code1,003

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 Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Vnpnxr <3 Years Phy/Qhp Skill Femoral/Jugular Vn.

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, “Blood draw from a neck or groin vein in a child under 3 (CPT 36400) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36400-blood-draw-from-a-neck-or-groin-vein-in-a-child-under-3