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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

Georgia 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?

$3,735

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,735 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $851 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,884 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$851$141 to $1,479
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,884$1,288 to $4,571

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,884 · 10th to 90th $575 to $6,761Professionalmedian $851 · 10th to 90th $117 to $1,995
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,884professional $851

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
$1,318.26
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$9,549.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,995.26
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$3,981.07
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,905.46
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$109.65
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$831.76
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$2,089.30
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$2,089.30
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$2,951.21
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$2,041.74

Where Georgia 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

Georgia· 18th of 50

$3,735

$851 physician + $2,884 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.