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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

Missouri 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?

$2,254

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,254 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,023 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,230 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,023$135 to $1,318
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,230$631 to $2,188

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,230 · 10th to 90th $372 to $4,169Professionalmedian $1,023 · 10th to 90th $120 to $4,571
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,230professional $1,023

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
$131.83
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$6,309.57
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,380.38
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$346.74
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$3,890.45
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$1,202.26
BCBS Kansas City
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,584.89
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$5,248.07
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$1,659.59
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$2,691.53
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$9,120.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$2,398.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$2,187.76
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
$53.70
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$676.08
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$269.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$1,023.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$204.17
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$10.72
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$134.90

Where Missouri 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

Missouri· 23rd of 51

$2,254

$1,023 physician + $1,230 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.