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Blood draw from another vein in a child under 3

CPT 36406the billing code this page is about

A blood sample taken from a vein other than the scalp, neck or groin in a child younger than three years, requiring a physician or other qualified clinician.

Hospitals typically charge $50 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 939 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $61. Most fall between $21 and $148 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
939
States
49
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 939 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
$14$26$50$114$312

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $312).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $15: 87 hospitals$10$15 – $24: 88 hospitals$24 – $39: 164 hospitals$24$39 – $61: 135 hospitals$61 – $97: 141 hospitals$61$97 – $153: 92 hospitals$153 – $243: 55 hospitals$153$243 – $384: 64 hospitals$384 – $608: 11 hospitals$384$608 – $962: 10 hospitals$608median $50price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (847 of 939 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$1587
$15$2488
$24$39164
$39$61135
$61$97141
$97$15392
$153$24355
$243$38464
$384$60811
$608$96210

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $50.

Alaska: median $192 across 11 hospitalsAK$192Maine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $46 across 36 hospitalsWA$46Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $56 across 60 hospitalsMN$56Illinois: median $56 across 30 hospitalsIL$56Wisconsin: median $70 across 54 hospitalsWI$70Michigan: median $46 across 49 hospitalsMI$46New York: median $30 across 34 hospitalsNY$30Massachusetts: median $31 across 20 hospitalsMA$31Oregon: median $34 across 25 hospitalsOR$34Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $54 across 11 hospitalsSD$54Iowa: median $42 across 27 hospitalsIA$42Indiana: median $36 across 26 hospitalsIN$36Ohio: median $66 across 14 hospitalsOH$66Pennsylvania: median $23 across 27 hospitalsPA$23New Jersey: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: median $50 across 10 hospitalsCT$50Rhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $111 across 83 hospitalsCA$111Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $29 across 10 hospitalsCO$29Nebraska: median $46 across 15 hospitalsNE$46Missouri: median $26 across 22 hospitalsMO$26Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $11 across 22 hospitalsWV$11Virginia: median $36 across 11 hospitalsVA$36Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: median $117 across 12 hospitalsNM$117Kansas: median $31 across 13 hospitalsKS$31Arkansas: 5 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 $11 across 14 hospitalsSC$11Oklahoma: median $15 across 27 hospitalsOK$15Louisiana: median $161 across 27 hospitalsLA$161Mississippi: median $45 across 11 hospitalsMS$45Alabama: median $59 across 10 hospitalsAL$59Georgia: median $35 across 42 hospitalsGA$35Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $217 across 52 hospitalsTX$217Florida: median $156 across 23 hospitalsFL$156
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $50. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
North Carolina NC20$355+610%$14 – $355
Texas TX52$217+334%$84 – $1,634
Alaska AK11$192+284%$54 – $2,063
Louisiana LA27$161+221%$7 – $749
Florida FL23$156+212%$52 – $324
New Mexico NM12$117+134%$19 – $175
California CA83$111+122%$62 – $248
Wisconsin WI54$70+40%$46 – $127
Ohio OH14$66+33%$13 – $281
Alabama AL10$59+17%$12 – $312
Illinois IL30$56+13%$14 – $101
Minnesota MN60$56+12%$32 – $87
South Dakota SD11$54+7%$54 – $116
Connecticut CT10$500%$42 – $140
Michigan MI49$46−7%$21 – $95
Washington WA36$46−8%$32 – $136
Nebraska NE15$46−9%$21 – $85
Mississippi MS11$45−10%$21 – $53
Iowa IA27$42−17%$26 – $49
Indiana IN26$36−28%$26 – $56
Virginia VA11$36−28%$36 – $281
Georgia GA42$35−30%$26 – $113
Oregon OR25$34−33%$33 – $44
Kansas KS13$31−38%$18 – $210
Massachusetts MA20$31−38%$21 – $57
New York NY34$30−39%$18 – $97
Colorado CO10$29−43%$19 – $54
Missouri MO22$26−48%$18 – $55
Pennsylvania PA27$23−53%$6 – $38
Oklahoma OK27$15−70%$15 – $98
South Carolina SC14$11−78%$11 – $23
West Virginia WV22$11−78%$9 – $22
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $50.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care673$54$19 – $161
Children’s31$89$29 – $260
Critical access235$46$24 – $106
Ownership
For-profit68$56$28 – $324
Government157$43$20 – $167
Non-profit714$50$20 – $132
System affiliation
Part of a system788$54$22 – $141
Independent151$42$16 – $159

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$86
Median cash price$50
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

721 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $59 and the average of the middle 60% is $71; most fall between $23 and $195.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 721 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
$15$29$59$130$343

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $343).

Of the 776 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 721 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 29 a list price only.

How complete is this

939 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (24%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,042 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted939
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here38
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded62
Hospitals that filed this code1,042

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 Phys/Qhp Skill Other 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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Blood draw from another vein in a child under 3 (CPT 36406) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36406-blood-draw-from-another-vein-in-a-child-under-3