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Sealing A Fluid Pocket With An Injected Solution

West Virginia 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?

$5,505

Typical total for the visit. In West Virginia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,505 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $257 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,248 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$257$123 to $1,175
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,248$1,202 to $5,248

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,248 · 10th to 90th $117 to $5,248Professionalmedian $257 · 10th to 90th $110 to $1,479
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $5,248professional $257

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
$117.49
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$5,248.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$1,445.44
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$154.88
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$134.90
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$186.21
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$3,388.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$4,570.88
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$1,698.24

Where West Virginia 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

West Virginia· 3rd of 50

$5,505

$257 physician + $5,248 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.