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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

Michigan 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?

$3,118

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,118 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $234 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,884 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$234$132 to $1,288
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,884$1,622 to $4,898

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,884 · 10th to 90th $158 to $7,762Professionalmedian $234 · 10th to 90th $115 to $1,549
$50$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $2,884professional $234

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
$158.49
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$7,762.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$1,548.82
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$162.18
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$173.78
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$2,089.30
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$4,897.79
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,659.59
Priority Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$5,248.07
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$4,677.35
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,737.80

Where Michigan 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

Michigan· 23rd of 50

$3,118

$234 physician + $2,884 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.