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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 July 2026.

How much does Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution cost?

$4,262

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,262 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $631 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,631 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$631$162 to $1,349
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,631$1,549 to $6,918

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,631 · 10th to 90th $200 to $12,589Professionalmedian $631 · 10th to 90th $117 to $2,630
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $3,631professional $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
$1,659.59
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$13,489.63
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$2,454.71
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$158.49
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$5,754.40
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$2,290.87
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$2,951.21
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$2,344.23
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$9,120.11
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$3,090.30
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$2,884.03
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$5,248.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$2,884.03

Where Nebraska 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

Nebraska· 13th of 50

$4,262

$631 physician + $3,631 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.