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Keyhole Drainage Of A Lymph Fluid Collection

Alabama rates for HCPCS 49323

Uses a camera and instruments passed through small abdominal incisions to open a lymphocele, a pocket of lymph fluid that has collected after earlier surgery, so that its contents drain into the abdominal cavity where the body reabsorbs them. Creating a permanent opening stops the pocket refilling.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Keyhole Drainage Of A Lymph Fluid Collection cost?

$6,183

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,183 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $813 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,370 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$813$631 to $1,072
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,370$2,884 to $5,495

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,370 · 10th to 90th $1,349 to $5,495Professionalmedian $813 · 10th to 90th $575 to $1,288
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $5,370professional $813

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
$776.25
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,288.25
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,370.32
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$5,495.41
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,023.29
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$3,548.13
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$851.14
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$6,456.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,148.15
6 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
$645.65
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$645.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$257.04
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$954.99
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$190.55
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$128.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$891.25

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 5.4 times more in Colorado than in Montana. 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

Alabama· 10th of 51

$6,183

$813 physician + $5,370 facility

CO $11,084MT $2,070

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.