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Procedure price report · Other vascular catheterization, not heart

PICC line placement with imaging guidance, under age 5

CPT 36572the billing code this page is about

Insertion of a long IV catheter through a peripheral vein into a large central vein in a child under 5 years old, using ultrasound or x-ray guidance and tip confirmation.

Hospitals typically charge $1,568 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,392 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,610. Most fall between $746 and $2,889 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,392
States
49
Filings dated
Nov 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 1,392 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
$555$848$1,568$2,483$3,892

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($555 vs $3,892).

How the prices are spread

$337 – $439: 19 hospitals$337$439 – $573: 63 hospitals$573 – $747: 128 hospitals$573$747 – $974: 141 hospitals$974 – $1,270: 157 hospitals$974$1,270 – $1,657: 151 hospitals$1,657 – $2,161: 206 hospitals$1,657$2,161 – $2,818: 171 hospitals$2,818 – $3,675: 99 hospitals$2,818$3,675 – $4,794: 129 hospitals$3,675median $1,568price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,264 of 1,392 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$337$43919
$439$57363
$573$747128
$747$974141
$974$1,270157
$1,270$1,657151
$1,657$2,161206
$2,161$2,818171
$2,818$3,67599
$3,675$4,794129

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$641
Median cash price$1,568
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.4×

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 $1,568.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 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 $1,673 across 44 hospitalsWA$1,673Idaho: median $1,672 across 13 hospitalsID$1,672Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $636 across 10 hospitalsND$636Minnesota: median $817 across 35 hospitalsMN$817Illinois: median $1,610 across 48 hospitalsIL$1,610Wisconsin: median $1,843 across 65 hospitalsWI$1,843Michigan: median $2,568 across 49 hospitalsMI$2,568New York: median $1,124 across 54 hospitalsNY$1,124Massachusetts: median $1,976 across 15 hospitalsMA$1,976Oregon: median $1,538 across 32 hospitalsOR$1,538Nevada: median $1,175 across 11 hospitalsNV$1,175Wyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,062 across 25 hospitalsIA$1,062Indiana: median $1,868 across 50 hospitalsIN$1,868Ohio: median $1,620 across 46 hospitalsOH$1,620Pennsylvania: median $1,165 across 48 hospitalsPA$1,165New Jersey: median $2,368 across 39 hospitalsNJ$2,368Connecticut: median $1,306 across 10 hospitalsCT$1,306Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,690 across 121 hospitalsCA$1,690Utah: median $3,195 across 26 hospitalsUT$3,195Colorado: median $1,766 across 38 hospitalsCO$1,766Nebraska: median $721 across 17 hospitalsNE$721Missouri: median $1,920 across 19 hospitalsMO$1,920Kentucky: median $1,033 across 14 hospitalsKY$1,033West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,377 across 39 hospitalsVA$1,377Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,071 across 34 hospitalsAZ$1,071New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $810 across 16 hospitalsKS$810Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $566 across 27 hospitalsTN$566North Carolina: median $1,134 across 44 hospitalsNC$1,134South Carolina: median $2,236 across 28 hospitalsSC$2,236Oklahoma: median $1,083 across 25 hospitalsOK$1,083Louisiana: median $767 across 28 hospitalsLA$767Mississippi: median $566 across 13 hospitalsMS$566Alabama: median $1,808 across 12 hospitalsAL$1,808Georgia: median $1,886 across 51 hospitalsGA$1,886Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,786 across 95 hospitalsTX$3,786Florida: median $1,568 across 74 hospitalsFL$1,568
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,568. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX95$3,786+141%$915 – $4,298
Utah UT26$3,195+104%$3,195 – $3,759
Michigan MI49$2,568+64%$1,068 – $2,923
New Jersey NJ39$2,368+51%$684 – $5,855
South Carolina SC28$2,236+43%$1,055 – $2,458
Massachusetts MA15$1,976+26%$1,637 – $2,389
Missouri MO19$1,920+22%$851 – $2,968
Georgia GA51$1,886+20%$1,484 – $2,169
Indiana IN50$1,868+19%$938 – $2,701
Wisconsin WI65$1,843+18%$1,199 – $2,621
Alabama AL12$1,808+15%$796 – $3,009
Colorado CO38$1,766+13%$894 – $2,568
California CA121$1,690+8%$1,010 – $4,794
Washington WA44$1,673+7%$1,154 – $2,748
Idaho ID13$1,672+7%$1,293 – $2,523
Ohio OH46$1,620+3%$728 – $2,491
Illinois IL48$1,610+3%$981 – $3,204
Florida FL74$1,5680%$877 – $2,934
Oregon OR32$1,538−2%$205 – $2,549
Virginia VA39$1,377−12%$1,079 – $2,979
Connecticut CT10$1,306−17%$160 – $2,228
Nevada NV11$1,175−25%$682 – $1,598
Pennsylvania PA48$1,165−26%$833 – $1,992
North Carolina NC44$1,134−28%$835 – $2,115
New York NY54$1,124−28%$732 – $2,493
Oklahoma OK25$1,083−31%$937 – $1,844
Arizona AZ34$1,071−32%$783 – $4,740
Iowa IA25$1,062−32%$680 – $1,863
Kentucky KY14$1,033−34%$606 – $2,483
Minnesota MN35$817−48%$576 – $1,260
Kansas KS16$810−48%$272 – $1,068
Louisiana LA28$767−51%$502 – $1,327
Nebraska NE17$721−54%$569 – $1,597
North Dakota ND10$636−59%$157 – $1,274
Mississippi MS13$566−64%$472 – $1,281
Tennessee TN27$566−64%$521 – $1,079
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $1,568.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,154$1,611$775 – $2,923
Children’s48$2,367$961 – $3,846
Critical access185$1,235$576 – $2,449
Ownership
For-profit115$1,758$835 – $4,133
Government191$1,172$592 – $2,391
Non-profit1,081$1,610$775 – $2,923
System affiliation
Part of a system1,224$1,611$783 – $2,923
Independent168$1,175$592 – $2,523

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,786
Median cash price$1,568
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

1,109 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,730 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,749; most fall between $837 and $2,979.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,109 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
$569$960$1,730$2,726$4,001

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($569 vs $4,001).

Of the 1,187 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,109 gave a usable cash price; 41 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 37 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,392 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (35%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,487 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,392
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here59
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded36
Hospitals that filed this code1,487

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/Rs&I < 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 with imaging guidance, under age 5 (CPT 36572) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-36572-picc-line-placement-with-imaging-guidance-under-age-5