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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

Arizona 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?

$3,020

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,020 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $832 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,188 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$832$132 to $1,318
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,188$1,230 to $3,715

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,188 · 10th to 90th $191 to $5,623Professionalmedian $832 · 10th to 90th $115 to $1,995
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $2,188professional $832

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
$1,737.80
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$6,760.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,819.70
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$186.21
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$3,311.31
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$2,238.72
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23,442.29
Median
$23,442.29
Typical High
$23,442.29
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$1,905.46
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$2,137.96
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$9,120.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$3,235.94
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,659.59

Where Arizona 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

Arizona· 25th of 50

$3,020

$832 physician + $2,188 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.