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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

Massachusetts 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?

$1,942

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,942 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $794 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,148 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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$794$145 to $1,549
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,148$162 to $2,884

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,148 · 10th to 90th $135 to $3,715Professionalmedian $794 · 10th to 90th $117 to $2,884
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,148professional $794

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
$562.34
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$3,715.35
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$1,995.26
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$4,168.69
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$3,630.78
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$316.23
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$3,388.44
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$741.31
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$2,754.23
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$3,311.31
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$2,511.89
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$7,079.46
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$2,884.03
Health New England
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,698.24
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$2,691.53
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$4,168.69
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$3,630.78
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$5,623.41
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$3,162.28

Where Massachusetts 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

Massachusetts· 46th of 50

$1,942

$794 physician + $1,148 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.