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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

New Mexico 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?

$2,089

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,089 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $676 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,413 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$676$126 to $1,380
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,413$178 to $2,630

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,413 · 10th to 90th $129 to $6,166Professionalmedian $676 · 10th to 90th $117 to $1,820
$100$1K$10Kfacility $1,413professional $676

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
$165.96
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$5,011.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,819.70
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$8,511.38
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$1,737.80
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$1,862.09
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$1,659.59
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$2,041.74
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$2,137.96
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$3,388.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,995.26

Where New Mexico 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 Mexico· 43rd of 50

$2,089

$676 physician + $1,413 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.