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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

Illinois 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?

$2,753

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,753 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $933 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,820 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$933$138 to $1,380
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,820$1,259 to $4,169

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,820 · 10th to 90th $513 to $6,166Professionalmedian $933 · 10th to 90th $117 to $1,862
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,820professional $933

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
$309.03
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$6,165.95
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,819.70
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$162.18
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$2,818.38
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$1,737.80
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$588.84
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$2,041.74
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$1,949.84
Hally Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$1,548.82
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$1,548.82
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$3,890.45
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,949.84

Where Illinois 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

Illinois· 29th of 50

$2,753

$933 physician + $1,820 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.