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Keyhole Drainage Of A Lymph Fluid Collection

Louisiana 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?

$5,483

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,483 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $912 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,571 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$912$692 to $1,047
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,571$2,291 to $7,244

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,571 · 10th to 90th $1,175 to $10,471Professionalmedian $912 · 10th to 90th $617 to $1,096
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $4,571professional $912

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
$758.58
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$4,365.16
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,047.13
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,570.88
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$10,964.78
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,047.13
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$4,786.30
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,122.02
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$11,481.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$1,174.90
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
$457.09
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$524.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$208.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$776.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$158.49
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$104.71
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$724.44

Where Louisiana 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

Louisiana· 19th of 51

$5,483

$912 physician + $4,571 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.