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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

Florida 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?

$4,910

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,910 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $741 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,169 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$741$123 to $1,259
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,169$1,585 to $6,918

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,169 · 10th to 90th $794 to $10,471Professionalmedian $741 · 10th to 90th $110 to $1,585
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $4,169professional $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
$776.25
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$10,715.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,548.82
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$177.83
AvMed
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$11,220.18
AvMed
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,258.93
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$5,248.07
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$1,905.46
Florida Blue
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$4,786.30
Typical High
$9,549.93
Florida Blue
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,380.38
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$1,258.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$5,011.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,659.59
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,230.27

Where Florida 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

Florida· 5th of 50

$4,910

$741 physician + $4,169 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.