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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 October 2026.

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

$2,570

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,570 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $708 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,862 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$708$115 to $1,047
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,862$1,047 to $4,169

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,862 · 10th to 90th $603 to $6,761Professionalmedian $708 · 10th to 90th $78 to $1,413
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,862professional $708

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
$123.03
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$9,772.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,047.13
AmeriHealth
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$8,317.64
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$4,466.84
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$1,548.82
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$1,995.26
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$6,165.95
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,949.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$1,148.15
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
$60.26
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$524.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$208.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$776.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$18.20
Median
$117.49
Typical High
$154.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$12.30
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$104.71

Where New Jersey 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

New Jersey· 13th of 51

$2,570

$708 physician + $1,862 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.