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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 July 2026.

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

$2,629

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,629 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $851 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,778 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$851$126 to $1,318
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,778$1,259 to $2,818

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,778 · 10th to 90th $676 to $4,266Professionalmedian $851 · 10th to 90th $115 to $1,622
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,778professional $851

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
$794.33
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$6,456.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,548.82
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$3,890.45
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,698.24
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$1,584.89
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$2,398.83
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$9,120.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$3,235.94
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,548.82

Where Oklahoma 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

Oklahoma· 32nd of 50

$2,629

$851 physician + $1,778 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.