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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

PICC line placement without imaging guidance, age 5 and up

CPT 36569the billing code this page is about

Insertion of a long IV catheter through an arm vein up to a large central vein in a patient 5 years or older, without a port or pump and without imaging guidance.

Hospitals typically charge $1,679 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,855 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,713. Most fall between $684 and $2,991 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,855
States
50
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 2,855 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
$326$891$1,679$2,641$4,108

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($326 vs $4,108).

How the prices are spread

$188 – $264: 91 hospitals$188$264 – $371: 92 hospitals$371 – $520: 119 hospitals$371$520 – $730: 160 hospitals$730 – $1,024: 230 hospitals$730$1,024 – $1,438: 371 hospitals$1,438 – $2,017: 524 hospitals$1,438$2,017 – $2,831: 497 hospitals$2,831 – $3,973: 321 hospitals$2,831$3,973 – $5,576: 171 hospitals$3,973median $1,679price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,576 of 2,855 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$188$26491
$264$37192
$371$520119
$520$730160
$730$1,024230
$1,024$1,438371
$1,438$2,017524
$2,017$2,831497
$2,831$3,973321
$3,973$5,576171

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,608
Median cash price$1,679
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.04×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,679.

Alaska: median $1,671 across 13 hospitalsAK$1,671Maine: median $941 across 21 hospitalsME$941Vermont: median $1,169 across 12 hospitalsVT$1,169New Hampshire: median $1,201 across 20 hospitalsNH$1,201Washington: median $1,805 across 71 hospitalsWA$1,805Idaho: median $2,289 across 21 hospitalsID$2,289Montana: median $268 across 21 hospitalsMT$268North Dakota: median $1,600 across 15 hospitalsND$1,600Minnesota: median $1,119 across 87 hospitalsMN$1,119Illinois: median $1,362 across 122 hospitalsIL$1,362Wisconsin: median $1,187 across 96 hospitalsWI$1,187Michigan: median $1,445 across 83 hospitalsMI$1,445New York: median $1,838 across 96 hospitalsNY$1,838Massachusetts: median $2,084 across 48 hospitalsMA$2,084Oregon: median $461 across 47 hospitalsOR$461Nevada: median $1,260 across 18 hospitalsNV$1,260Wyoming: median $1,109 across 14 hospitalsWY$1,109South Dakota: median $1,608 across 23 hospitalsSD$1,608Iowa: median $1,081 across 84 hospitalsIA$1,081Indiana: median $1,441 across 78 hospitalsIN$1,441Ohio: median $2,130 across 136 hospitalsOH$2,130Pennsylvania: median $2,012 across 113 hospitalsPA$2,012New Jersey: median $2,037 across 56 hospitalsNJ$2,037Connecticut: median $1,272 across 20 hospitalsCT$1,272Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,604 across 192 hospitalsCA$2,604Utah: median $2,853 across 32 hospitalsUT$2,853Colorado: median $1,620 across 66 hospitalsCO$1,620Nebraska: median $1,440 across 55 hospitalsNE$1,440Missouri: median $1,409 across 79 hospitalsMO$1,409Kentucky: median $1,759 across 44 hospitalsKY$1,759West Virginia: median $1,735 across 38 hospitalsWV$1,735Virginia: median $1,927 across 57 hospitalsVA$1,927Maryland: median $1,358 across 10 hospitalsMD$1,358Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,454 across 48 hospitalsAZ$1,454New Mexico: median $1,823 across 27 hospitalsNM$1,823Kansas: median $867 across 67 hospitalsKS$867Arkansas: median $1,027 across 27 hospitalsAR$1,027Tennessee: median $515 across 60 hospitalsTN$515North Carolina: median $1,385 across 71 hospitalsNC$1,385South Carolina: median $1,910 across 42 hospitalsSC$1,910Oklahoma: median $1,460 across 66 hospitalsOK$1,460Louisiana: median $975 across 52 hospitalsLA$975Mississippi: median $703 across 47 hospitalsMS$703Alabama: median $1,532 across 37 hospitalsAL$1,532Georgia: median $2,922 across 92 hospitalsGA$2,922Hawaii: median $1,252 across 16 hospitalsHI$1,252Texas: median $2,187 across 193 hospitalsTX$2,187Florida: median $1,983 across 110 hospitalsFL$1,983
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,679. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA92$2,922+74%$1,114 – $4,707
Utah UT32$2,853+70%$1,678 – $3,356
California CA192$2,604+55%$1,520 – $4,268
Idaho ID21$2,289+36%$206 – $3,542
Texas TX193$2,187+30%$1,401 – $3,448
Ohio OH136$2,130+27%$1,481 – $3,698
Massachusetts MA48$2,084+24%$1,398 – $4,329
New Jersey NJ56$2,037+21%$1,719 – $4,593
Pennsylvania PA113$2,012+20%$1,070 – $3,216
Florida FL110$1,983+18%$943 – $4,320
Virginia VA57$1,927+15%$1,208 – $2,652
South Carolina SC42$1,910+14%$1,004 – $3,010
New York NY96$1,838+9%$435 – $3,430
New Mexico NM27$1,823+9%$617 – $3,285
Washington WA71$1,805+7%$692 – $2,705
Kentucky KY44$1,759+5%$750 – $2,250
West Virginia WV38$1,735+3%$760 – $3,052
Alaska AK13$1,6710%$723 – $2,902
Colorado CO66$1,620−4%$750 – $2,687
South Dakota SD23$1,608−4%$630 – $2,530
North Dakota ND15$1,600−5%$184 – $2,369
Alabama AL37$1,532−9%$681 – $3,107
Oklahoma OK66$1,460−13%$969 – $2,365
Arizona AZ48$1,454−13%$844 – $7,370
Michigan MI83$1,445−14%$188 – $2,192
Indiana IN78$1,441−14%$823 – $2,271
Nebraska NE55$1,440−14%$363 – $2,320
Missouri MO79$1,409−16%$541 – $2,833
North Carolina NC71$1,385−17%$942 – $1,802
Illinois IL122$1,362−19%$638 – $3,009
Maryland MD10$1,358−19%$680 – $1,969
Connecticut CT20$1,272−24%$322 – $2,381
Nevada NV18$1,260−25%$749 – $1,930
Hawaii HI16$1,252−25%$1,017 – $2,339
New Hampshire NH20$1,201−28%$115 – $2,403
Wisconsin WI96$1,187−29%$668 – $2,398
Vermont VT12$1,169−30%$350 – $3,016
Minnesota MN87$1,119−33%$283 – $1,749
Wyoming WY14$1,109−34%$290 – $1,545
Iowa IA84$1,081−36%$419 – $2,022
Arkansas AR27$1,027−39%$731 – $1,541
Louisiana LA52$975−42%$550 – $2,424
Maine ME21$941−44%$415 – $2,088
Kansas KS67$867−48%$266 – $1,483
Mississippi MS47$703−58%$387 – $1,796
Tennessee TN60$515−69%$350 – $1,820
Oregon OR47$461−73%$211 – $2,023
Montana MT21$268−84%$142 – $826
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $1,679.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,052$1,843$941 – $3,232
Children’s64$2,596$846 – $5,535
Critical access731$1,081$359 – $2,136
Ownership
For-profit322$2,254$1,029 – $4,707
Government523$1,292$429 – $2,352
Non-profit2,002$1,719$756 – $2,954
System affiliation
Part of a system2,323$1,759$815 – $3,042
Independent532$1,235$345 – $2,458

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,982
Median cash price$1,679
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

2,120 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,797 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,850; most fall between $879 and $3,042.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,120 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
$431$1,035$1,797$2,769$4,108

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($431 vs $4,108).

Of the 2,279 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,120 gave a usable cash price; 69 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 89 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,855 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (72%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,084 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,855
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here124
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded98
Hospitals that filed this code3,084

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 Insertion Picc W/O Img Gdn 5 Yr/>.

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, “PICC line placement without imaging guidance, age 5 and up (CPT 36569) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36569-picc-line-placement-without-imaging-guidance-age-5-and-up