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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

Nebraska 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?

$2,018

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,018 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $240 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,778 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$240$166 to $2,188
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,778$676 to $3,020

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,778 · 10th to 90th $490 to $6,166Professionalmedian $240 · 10th to 90th $112 to $2,951
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,778professional $240

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
$1,096.48
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$11,481.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$2,884.03
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,290.87
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$6,165.95
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$239.88
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,380.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$2,884.03
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$3,235.94
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$9,120.11
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$3,019.95
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,905.46
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$3,090.30
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$2,818.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$2,884.03
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
$54.95
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$549.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$218.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$831.76
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$165.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$109.65

Where Nebraska 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

Nebraska· 30th of 51

$2,018

$240 physician + $1,778 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.