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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

Arkansas 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?

$2,159

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,159 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $646 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,514 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$646$123 to $1,175
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,514$1,072 to $1,820

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,514 · 10th to 90th $537 to $2,089Professionalmedian $646 · 10th to 90th $115 to $1,479
$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $1,514professional $646

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
$223.87
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$2,041.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$1,445.44
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$158.49
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,089.30
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$1,698.24
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$562.34
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$1,905.46
Qualchoice
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$181.97
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$3,388.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,698.24

Where Arkansas 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

Arkansas· 40th of 50

$2,159

$646 physician + $1,514 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.