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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

Colorado 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?

$3,047

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,047 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $417 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,630 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$417$132 to $1,349
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,630$1,318 to $4,786

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,630 · 10th to 90th $145 to $6,457Professionalmedian $417 · 10th to 90th $117 to $1,950
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,630professional $417

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
$1,258.93
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$6,606.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$1,737.80
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$8,511.38
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$2,238.72
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$5,248.07
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$2,089.30
Denver HMP
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$2,089.30
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,819.70
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$2,691.53
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$977.24
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$3,715.35
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,995.26

Where Colorado 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

Colorado· 24th of 50

$3,047

$417 physician + $2,630 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.