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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

Arm-placed central IV line with port, age 5 and up

CPT 36571the 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 patient 5 years or older.

Hospitals typically charge $3,565 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,695 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,723. Most fall between $1,776 and $6,497 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,695
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 1,695 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
$920$2,156$3,565$5,539$9,939

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($920 vs $9,939).

How the prices are spread

$629 – $851: 55 hospitals$629$851 – $1,150: 59 hospitals$1,150 – $1,556: 87 hospitals$1,150$1,556 – $2,103: 125 hospitals$2,103 – $2,844: 183 hospitals$2,103$2,844 – $3,845: 330 hospitals$3,845 – $5,198: 312 hospitals$3,845$5,198 – $7,029: 162 hospitals$7,029 – $9,503: 115 hospitals$7,029$9,503 – $12,849: 99 hospitals$9,503median $3,565price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,527 of 1,695 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$629$85155
$851$1,15059
$1,150$1,55687
$1,556$2,103125
$2,103$2,844183
$2,844$3,845330
$3,845$5,198312
$5,198$7,029162
$7,029$9,503115
$9,503$12,84999

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,226
Median cash price$3,565
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.11×

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 $3,565.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $1,180 across 10 hospitalsME$1,180Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $1,155 across 10 hospitalsNH$1,155Washington: median $3,500 across 45 hospitalsWA$3,500Idaho: median $3,229 across 16 hospitalsID$3,229Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,184 across 28 hospitalsMN$2,184Illinois: median $3,683 across 64 hospitalsIL$3,683Wisconsin: median $2,495 across 70 hospitalsWI$2,495Michigan: median $1,717 across 47 hospitalsMI$1,717New York: median $3,748 across 72 hospitalsNY$3,748Massachusetts: median $3,844 across 23 hospitalsMA$3,844Oregon: median $3,696 across 36 hospitalsOR$3,696Nevada: median $3,919 across 12 hospitalsNV$3,919Wyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,808 across 41 hospitalsIA$2,808Indiana: median $4,340 across 44 hospitalsIN$4,340Ohio: median $5,090 across 79 hospitalsOH$5,090Pennsylvania: median $3,690 across 82 hospitalsPA$3,690New Jersey: median $4,200 across 51 hospitalsNJ$4,200Connecticut: median $3,935 across 12 hospitalsCT$3,935Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $5,894 across 141 hospitalsCA$5,894Utah: median $3,325 across 26 hospitalsUT$3,325Colorado: median $3,446 across 42 hospitalsCO$3,446Nebraska: median $3,470 across 27 hospitalsNE$3,470Missouri: median $3,006 across 40 hospitalsMO$3,006Kentucky: median $1,478 across 23 hospitalsKY$1,478West Virginia: median $1,065 across 18 hospitalsWV$1,065Virginia: median $3,121 across 33 hospitalsVA$3,121Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $4,071 across 31 hospitalsAZ$4,071New Mexico: median $3,508 across 11 hospitalsNM$3,508Kansas: median $1,941 across 37 hospitalsKS$1,941Arkansas: median $2,242 across 12 hospitalsAR$2,242Tennessee: median $1,316 across 27 hospitalsTN$1,316North Carolina: median $1,797 across 31 hospitalsNC$1,797South Carolina: median $6,531 across 26 hospitalsSC$6,531Oklahoma: median $1,798 across 33 hospitalsOK$1,798Louisiana: median $2,582 across 30 hospitalsLA$2,582Mississippi: median $2,200 across 21 hospitalsMS$2,200Alabama: median $3,332 across 19 hospitalsAL$3,332Georgia: median $5,211 across 67 hospitalsGA$5,211Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,913 across 133 hospitalsTX$3,913Florida: median $5,914 across 64 hospitalsFL$5,914
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,565. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC26$6,531+83%$5,303 – $8,810
Florida FL64$5,914+66%$2,534 – $12,416
California CA141$5,894+65%$3,890 – $10,679
Georgia GA67$5,211+46%$3,151 – $12,879
Ohio OH79$5,090+43%$2,905 – $11,764
Indiana IN44$4,340+22%$1,478 – $8,446
New Jersey NJ51$4,200+18%$3,484 – $6,311
Arizona AZ31$4,071+14%$2,771 – $15,266
Connecticut CT12$3,935+10%$3,406 – $6,318
Nevada NV12$3,919+10%$1,491 – $6,359
Texas TX133$3,913+10%$2,984 – $6,898
Massachusetts MA23$3,844+8%$2,028 – $5,588
New York NY72$3,748+5%$1,852 – $6,810
Oregon OR36$3,696+4%$1,200 – $7,627
Pennsylvania PA82$3,690+4%$1,706 – $5,530
Illinois IL64$3,683+3%$1,478 – $7,268
New Mexico NM11$3,508−2%$2,349 – $6,441
Washington WA45$3,500−2%$1,625 – $5,617
Nebraska NE27$3,470−3%$2,473 – $3,618
Colorado CO42$3,446−3%$1,993 – $5,292
Alabama AL19$3,332−7%$2,247 – $7,912
Utah UT26$3,325−7%$2,859 – $3,364
Idaho ID16$3,229−9%$2,730 – $7,280
Virginia VA33$3,121−12%$1,414 – $3,827
Missouri MO40$3,006−16%$1,788 – $4,520
Iowa IA41$2,808−21%$1,317 – $4,063
Louisiana LA30$2,582−28%$1,597 – $3,393
Wisconsin WI70$2,495−30%$865 – $4,914
Arkansas AR12$2,242−37%$2,113 – $3,873
Mississippi MS21$2,200−38%$1,203 – $4,064
Minnesota MN28$2,184−39%$945 – $3,603
Kansas KS37$1,941−46%$642 – $4,256
Oklahoma OK33$1,798−50%$510 – $3,519
North Carolina NC31$1,797−50%$1,725 – $3,724
Michigan MI47$1,717−52%$784 – $4,342
Kentucky KY23$1,478−59%$1,173 – $8,892
Tennessee TN27$1,316−63%$856 – $3,160
Maine ME10$1,180−67%$469 – $2,135
New Hampshire NH10$1,155−68%$321 – $2,764
West Virginia WV18$1,065−70%$333 – $3,428
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $3,565.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,347$3,748$2,153 – $6,810
Children’s38$4,520$2,242 – $7,941
Critical access305$2,272$865 – $4,556
Ownership
For-profit174$4,742$2,730 – $9,215
Government270$2,685$1,230 – $4,586
Non-profit1,246$3,637$1,852 – $6,531
System affiliation
Part of a system1,408$3,696$1,887 – $6,688
Independent287$2,898$1,035 – $5,066

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,389
Median cash price$3,565
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

1,228 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,711 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,991; most fall between $1,888 and $7,248.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,228 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
$1,173$2,310$3,711$6,223$10,679

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,173 vs $10,679).

Of the 1,333 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,228 gave a usable cash price; 35 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 69 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,695 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (43%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,845 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,695
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here69
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 — excluded74
Hospitals that filed this code1,845

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 Age 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, age 5 and up (CPT 36571) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36571-arm-placed-central-iv-line-with-port-age-5-and-up