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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

Iowa 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?

$3,997

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,997 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $977 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,020 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$977$191 to $1,820
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,020$1,318 to $4,467

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,020 · 10th to 90th $200 to $6,457Professionalmedian $977 · 10th to 90th $117 to $3,162
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,020professional $977

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
$812.83
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$2,290.87
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,778.28
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$1,778.28
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$3,548.13
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,621.81
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$3,801.89
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$9,120.11
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$3,548.13
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,778.28
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$1,778.28
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$4,466.84
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$2,754.23
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$2,951.21

Where Iowa 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

Iowa· 15th of 50

$3,997

$977 physician + $3,020 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.