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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

Alabama 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?

$1,944

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,944 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $741 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,202 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$741$132 to $1,288
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,202$955 to $1,549

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,202 · 10th to 90th $646 to $2,188Professionalmedian $741 · 10th to 90th $112 to $2,188
$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $1,202professional $741

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
$758.58
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$2,290.87
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$162.18
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,621.81
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,621.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$1,905.46
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,511.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,698.24

Where Alabama 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

Alabama· 45th of 50

$1,944

$741 physician + $1,202 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.