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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 July 2026.

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

$4,090

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,090 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,000 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,090 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$1,000$182 to $1,514
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,090$1,318 to $5,623

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,090 · 10th to 90th $195 to $7,413Professionalmedian $1,000 · 10th to 90th $123 to $1,820
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,090professional $1,000

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
$1,288.25
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$8,128.31
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$2,137.96
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$162.18
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$1,513.56
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,778.28
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$1,995.26
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$2,137.96
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$9,120.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$2,818.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,659.59

Where Kansas 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

Kansas· 14th of 50

$4,090

$1,000 physician + $3,090 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.