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Keyhole Drainage Of A Lymph Fluid Collection

Kansas 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?

$7,057

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $7,057 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $891 to the doctor who performs it, and $6,166 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$891$724 to $1,047
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$6,166$2,512 to $7,244

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,166 · 10th to 90th $1,072 to $8,913Professionalmedian $891 · 10th to 90th $661 to $4,677
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $6,166professional $891

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
$1,949.84
Median
$4,677.35
Typical High
$10,964.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,047.13
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6,165.95
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$7,244.36
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$933.25
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$4,168.69
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,174.90
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$10,232.93
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$4,677.35
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$8,912.51
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,096.48
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
$338.84
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$524.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$208.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$794.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$158.49
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$104.71
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$741.31

Where Kansas 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

Kansas· 7th of 51

$7,057

$891 physician + $6,166 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.