Medical Procedure Costs in Alabama
Alabama Medicare physician rates are generally below the national average (-9.2%). One statewide locality — the ZIP tool still maps you onto that locality.
Look up any CPT in Alabama
Featured table below is 59 procedures. Search covers 7,500+ fee-schedule codes.
What these numbers are
Every figure on this page is a 2026 Medicare allowed amount: the physician line comes from the Physician Fee Schedule adjusted by geographic practice-cost indices, and the facility totals come from the CMS hospital outpatient (OPPS) and ambulatory surgery centre rates. None of them is a hospital chargemaster price, your insurer's contracted rate, or a quote. Anesthesia, pathology, imaging reads and follow-up care are billed under their own codes when they apply, and an inpatient stay is paid a different way again. These Alabama averages are unweighted means of the state’s localities, not population-weighted.
How Medicare prices Alabama
Medicare treats Alabama as one statewide payment locality, so the same geographic adjustment factors apply to a physician visit in Birmingham as in a small Wiregrass town. That single-locality setup keeps the published fee schedule uniform across the state, even though the cost of running a practice differs between the larger metros and rural counties. Alabama's geographic indices sit below the national average, which places its Medicare-approved amounts among the lower tiers nationally. What varies for patients is less the fee schedule itself and more the setting where care is delivered, since hospital outpatient billing can add facility fees on top of the physician rate.
Birmingham anchors the state's medical economy with a major academic medical center and a concentration of specialists, while Huntsville, Mobile, and Montgomery support sizable regional systems. Much of rural Alabama, particularly the Black Belt counties, faces thin physician coverage, so patients there often travel to a metro for specialty care. That travel pattern means the price you compare should be for where you will actually be treated, not just where you live.
Enter a ZIP code to see figures for your part of Alabama, whether that is Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, Montgomery, or a rural county in the Black Belt or the Appalachian north.
Featured physician rates in Alabama
Office (non-facility) physician rates. Open a row for the locality table and ZIP tool.
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Medical costs in Alabama: questions
Across the 59 featured procedures on this page, Alabama sits below the national average by about 9%. Examples: incision & drainage of abscess $116, skin biopsy (tangential) $86, skin biopsy (punch) $109. Search any other CPT in the box above — those codes are in the tool, not as extra Alabama articles.
Alabama is one Medicare locality, so the physician fee schedule is statewide. Site of service (office vs hospital) and hospital facility fees still change what a patient is billed.
Medicare physician allowed amounts only — the professional fee after GPCI. They do not include hospital facility charges, anesthesia, or your plan’s contracted rate. Medicare patients typically owe 20% of the allowed amount after the Part B deductible, before Medigap.
Yes. The table is the featured set (59 procedures). The search box looks up 7,500+ payable codes from the 2026 fee schedule and applies Alabama’s locality when you enter a ZIP.