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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Arm-placed central IV line with port, under age 5

CPT 36570the billing code this page is about

Insertion of a central venous catheter through a peripheral vein, connected to a port placed under the skin, in a child under 5 years old.

Hospitals typically charge $3,463 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 691 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,769. Most fall between $2,003 and $6,839 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
691
States
47
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 691 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
$1,063$2,290$3,463$6,313$10,153

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,063 vs $10,153).

How the prices are spread

$662 – $883: 19 hospitals$662$883 – $1,179: 31 hospitals$1,179 – $1,575: 21 hospitals$1,179$1,575 – $2,102: 51 hospitals$2,102 – $2,807: 85 hospitals$2,102$2,807 – $3,748: 158 hospitals$3,748 – $5,005: 74 hospitals$3,748$5,005 – $6,682: 72 hospitals$6,682 – $8,922: 67 hospitals$6,682$8,922 – $11,913: 45 hospitals$8,922median $3,463price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (623 of 691 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$662$88319
$883$1,17931
$1,179$1,57521
$1,575$2,10251
$2,102$2,80785
$2,807$3,748158
$3,748$5,00574
$5,005$6,68272
$6,682$8,92267
$8,922$11,91345

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,226
Median cash price$3,463
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.07×

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 $3,463.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $3,500 across 21 hospitalsWA$3,500Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,888 across 15 hospitalsMN$1,888Illinois: median $2,999 across 31 hospitalsIL$2,999Wisconsin: median $2,494 across 10 hospitalsWI$2,494Michigan: median $2,417 across 14 hospitalsMI$2,417New York: median $3,725 across 30 hospitalsNY$3,725Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $3,302 across 16 hospitalsOR$3,302Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $3,596 across 16 hospitalsIA$3,596Indiana: median $8,446 across 17 hospitalsIN$8,446Ohio: median $4,794 across 38 hospitalsOH$4,794Pennsylvania: median $3,532 across 35 hospitalsPA$3,532New Jersey: median $3,986 across 34 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $6,612 across 80 hospitalsCA$6,612Utah: median $3,028 across 25 hospitalsUT$3,028Colorado: median $3,076 across 17 hospitalsCO$3,076Nebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $3,121 across 17 hospitalsVA$3,121Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $3,441 across 10 hospitalsAZ$3,441New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $2,837 across 10 hospitalsKS$2,837Arkansas: 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 $2,058 across 10 hospitalsNC$2,058South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $544 across 17 hospitalsOK$544Louisiana: median $2,079 across 11 hospitalsLA$2,079Mississippi: median $1,604 across 11 hospitalsMS$1,604Alabama: median $3,332 across 10 hospitalsAL$3,332Georgia: median $5,867 across 13 hospitalsGA$5,867Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $3,004 across 44 hospitalsTX$3,004Florida: median $5,914 across 46 hospitalsFL$5,914
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,463. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Indiana IN17$8,446+144%$4,753 – $11,204
California CA80$6,612+91%$2,465 – $8,898
Florida FL46$5,914+71%$2,449 – $10,805
Georgia GA13$5,867+69%$888 – $6,831
Ohio OH38$4,794+38%$2,908 – $11,764
New Jersey NJ34$3,986+15%$3,440 – $5,741
New York NY30$3,725+8%$1,123 – $4,163
Iowa IA16$3,596+4%$2,435 – $3,596
Pennsylvania PA35$3,532+2%$2,586 – $4,888
Washington WA21$3,500+1%$1,676 – $4,358
Arizona AZ10$3,441−1%$2,848 – $3,875
Alabama AL10$3,332−4%$2,316 – $4,125
Oregon OR16$3,302−5%$752 – $16,880
Virginia VA17$3,121−10%$3,121 – $3,414
Colorado CO17$3,076−11%$3,001 – $8,541
Utah UT25$3,028−13%$3,028 – $3,364
Texas TX44$3,004−13%$2,354 – $10,104
Illinois IL31$2,999−13%$1,074 – $4,210
Kansas KS10$2,837−18%$1,270 – $17,713
Wisconsin WI10$2,494−28%$2,050 – $6,232
Michigan MI14$2,417−30%$1,306 – $4,342
Louisiana LA11$2,079−40%$1,478 – $5,706
North Carolina NC10$2,058−41%$1,682 – $2,360
Minnesota MN15$1,888−45%$1,074 – $2,118
Mississippi MS11$1,604−54%$799 – $2,200
Oklahoma OK17$544−84%$544 – $3,413
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $3,463.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care595$3,487$2,050 – $6,778
Children’s33$3,987$2,370 – $10,224
Critical access61$2,526$1,028 – $7,280
Ownership
For-profit60$3,286$1,682 – $8,103
Government94$3,099$999 – $5,914
Non-profit535$3,500$2,061 – $6,978
System affiliation
Part of a system591$3,484$2,099 – $6,913
Independent100$3,159$1,082 – $5,909

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,715
Median cash price$3,463
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

508 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,463 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,969; most fall between $2,058 and $7,773.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 508 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
$1,074$2,357$3,463$6,612$10,652

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,074 vs $10,652).

Of the 569 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 508 gave a usable cash price; 33 carried a plausibility flag, 3 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 25 a list price only.

How complete is this

691 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (17%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 766 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted691
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here49
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded4
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded22
Hospitals that filed this code766

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 Insj Prph Ctr Vad W/Subq Port Under 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, “Arm-placed central IV line with port, under age 5 (CPT 36570) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36570-arm-placed-central-iv-line-with-port-under-age-5