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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

Montana 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?

$1,833

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,833 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $631 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,202 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$631$162 to $1,259
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,202$200 to $2,138

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,202 · 10th to 90th $174 to $2,291Professionalmedian $631 · 10th to 90th $115 to $2,138
$100$500$2K$10K$50Kfacility $1,202professional $631

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
$1,000.00
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,000.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,380.38
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64,565.42
Median
$75,857.76
Typical High
$91,201.08
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$181.97
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$181.97
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$2,290.87
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$2,238.72
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$2,238.72
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$2,454.71
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$3,162.28
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$3,388.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$2,187.76

Where Montana 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

Montana· 48th of 50

$1,833

$631 physician + $1,202 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.