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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

Oklahoma 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?

$3,340

Typical total for the visit. In Oklahoma, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,340 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,202 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,138 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,202$151 to $1,622
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,138$1,259 to $3,162

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,138 · 10th to 90th $355 to $4,266Professionalmedian $1,202 · 10th to 90th $129 to $4,571
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,138professional $1,202

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
$1,000.00
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$8,317.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,348.96
BCBS Oklahoma
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$4,265.80
BCBS Oklahoma
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,698.24
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,174.90
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$1,380.38
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$3,467.37
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$9,120.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,511.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,380.38
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
$64.57
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$676.08
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$25.70
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$275.42
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$1,023.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$51.29
Typical High
$204.17
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$12.88
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$134.90

Where Oklahoma 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

Oklahoma· 6th of 51

$3,340

$1,202 physician + $2,138 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.