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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

Alaska rates for HCPCS 49185

A needle or fine tube is passed through the skin into a pocket of fluid such as a cyst, a collection of lymph fluid, or a seroma left after surgery, with imaging used to guide it and contrast injected first to show the size and shape of the pocket. A solution is then injected that irritates the lining so the pocket scars down and stops refilling. It can be done wherever such a collection forms, not only in the abdomen or pelvis.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution cost?

$2,195

Typical total for the visit. In Alaska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,195 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,047 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,148 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,047$302 to $2,951
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,148$178 to $2,042

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,148 · 10th to 90th $123 to $3,236Professionalmedian $1,047 · 10th to 90th $117 to $5,012
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,148professional $1,047

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$14,125.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$3,235.94
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$2,089.30
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$2,754.23
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$6,456.54
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$5,370.32
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$2,754.23
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$3,162.28
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,388.44
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$3,388.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$2,754.23

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 6.7 times more in New Jersey than in Maryland. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility fee

Alaska· 37th of 50

$2,195

$1,047 physician + $1,148 facility

NJ $6,366MD $947

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.