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Keyhole Drainage Of A Lymph Fluid Collection

Nebraska 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?

$6,694

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,694 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,445 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,445$1,175 to $1,660
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,248$2,630 to $8,128

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,248 · 10th to 90th $1,413 to $11,220Professionalmedian $1,445 · 10th to 90th $832 to $4,677
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $5,248professional $1,445

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
$4,365.16
Median
$7,244.36
Typical High
$17,378.01
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,513.56
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6,456.54
Median
$8,709.64
Typical High
$17,782.79
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,235.94
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$3,890.45
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,570.88
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$5,623.41
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,778.28
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$10,232.93
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$4,677.35
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,905.46
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,570.88
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$7,762.47
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,905.46
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$7,585.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,659.59
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
$288.40
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$338.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$134.90
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$512.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$102.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$67.61
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$478.63

Where Nebraska 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

Nebraska· 8th of 51

$6,694

$1,445 physician + $5,248 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.