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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

New Hampshire 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?

$1,888

Typical total for the visit. In New Hampshire, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,888 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $339 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,549 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$339$174 to $1,698
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,549$1,122 to $2,399

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,549 · 10th to 90th $135 to $6,026Professionalmedian $339 · 10th to 90th $126 to $2,570
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,549professional $339

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
$134.90
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$9,772.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,479.11
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$2,630.27
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$2,290.87
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,073.80
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$4,073.80
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$2,754.23
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$7,943.28
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$2,818.38
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$7,943.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$3,019.95
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$1,621.81

Where New Hampshire 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

New Hampshire· 47th of 50

$1,888

$339 physician + $1,549 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.