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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

New Jersey 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?

$6,366

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,366 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $871 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,495 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$871$123 to $1,380
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,495$2,951 to $7,244

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,495 · 10th to 90th $1,047 to $10,233Professionalmedian $871 · 10th to 90th $112 to $2,138
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $5,495professional $871

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
$1,047.13
Median
$5,754.40
Typical High
$10,232.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,737.80
AmeriHealth
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$8,128.31
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$2,238.72
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$2,511.89
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,388.44
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$7,585.78
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$2,187.76
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$6,760.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$2,187.76

Where New Jersey 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 Jersey· 1st of 50

$6,366

$871 physician + $5,495 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.