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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

Kansas 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?

$2,326

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,326 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,349 to the doctor who performs it, and $977 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$1,349$182 to $1,905
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$977$457 to $1,950

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $977 · 10th to 90th $229 to $3,548Professionalmedian $1,349 · 10th to 90th $141 to $4,571
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $977professional $1,349

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
$1,288.25
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,949.84
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$162.18
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$1,513.56
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,071.52
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,778.28
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$2,570.40
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$9,120.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$2,454.71
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,479.11
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
$61.66
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$977.24
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$389.05
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$1,445.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$295.12
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$12.30
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$194.98

Where Kansas 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

Kansas· 19th of 51

$2,326

$1,349 physician + $977 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.