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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 October 2026.

How much does Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution cost?

$3,308

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,308 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,445 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,862 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$1,445$257 to $2,692
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,862$871 to $3,467

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,862 · 10th to 90th $372 to $4,677Professionalmedian $1,445 · 10th to 90th $200 to $3,548
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,862professional $1,445

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$6,760.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,995.26
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,548.82
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$2,884.03
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,621.81
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$3,981.07
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$9,120.11
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$3,019.95
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,548.82
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$3,548.13
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$4,897.79
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$2,754.23
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$2,951.21
5 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$58.88
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$1,000.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$398.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$1,479.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$295.12
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$11.75
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$199.53

Where Iowa sits

The same service costs 5.5 times more in Hawaii 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· 7th of 51

$3,308

$1,445 physician + $1,862 facility

HI $4,440MD $808

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.