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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

Kentucky 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?

$2,220

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,220 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $741 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,479 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$741$123 to $1,148
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,479$229 to $5,495

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,479 · 10th to 90th $145 to $10,715Professionalmedian $741 · 10th to 90th $115 to $1,445
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $1,479professional $741

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
$144.54
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$1,479.11
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,801.89
Median
$10,715.19
Typical High
$11,220.18
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,023.29
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$177.83
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$177.83
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$186.21
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$5,754.40
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$776.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$3,388.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,621.81

Where Kentucky 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

Kentucky· 35th of 50

$2,220

$741 physician + $1,479 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.