Physical Therapy (Therapeutic Exercise) Cost in Alabama
Therapeutic exercises
$27.20Alabama physician fee2026 Medicare office rate- ✓Your ZIP's wage-adjusted hospital and surgery centre rates
- ✓Five nearby hospitals by name, with CMS star ratings
- ✓The add-on codes that typically land on the bill
- ✓A word-for-word script for asking for a good-faith estimate
- ✓A private link you can reopen and share
- ✓Everything in the Premium report
- ✓15 nearby hospitals instead of five
- ✓Filled good-faith-estimate request letter
- ✓Bill-negotiation letter
- ✓Printable PDF download
Alabama Medicare physician rate (2026)
-6.4% vs nationalSingle statewide locality.
Your ZIP in Alabama
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.
What physical therapy (therapeutic exercise) costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Alabama moves the bill more than anything else you control.
Rates for your ZIP, 5 named hospitals with CMS ratings, the add-on codes, and the scheduler script.
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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.
National vs Alabama
Where Alabama ranks for this CPT
Physical Therapy (Therapeutic Exercise) and how Alabama is priced
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.
This procedure: Therapeutic exercise is the foundational hands-on-guidance code of physical therapy: strength, range-of-motion, and flexibility exercises prescribed and supervised by a PT to restore function after injury or surgery. It is billed in 15-minute units, so a typical session includes two to four units of this code, often mixed with other billed services. Expect active work: you exercise while the therapist coaches, corrects form, and progresses the program visit by visit.
What Is Physical Therapy (Therapeutic Exercise)?
Therapeutic exercise is the foundational hands-on-guidance code of physical therapy: strength, range-of-motion, and flexibility exercises prescribed and supervised by a PT to restore function after injury or surgery. It is billed in 15-minute units, so a typical session includes two to four units of this code, often mixed with other billed services. Expect active work: you exercise while the therapist coaches, corrects form, and progresses the program visit by visit.
What Affects the Cost
- –Billing is per 15-minute unit, so the number of units per visit, not just the number of visits, drives your bill.
- –A full rehab course after surgery commonly spans 10 to 36 visits, making the per-visit total a recurring weekly expense.
- –Hospital-owned therapy clinics attach facility fees that private PT practices do not.
- –Sessions usually combine this code with others like manual therapy (97140), stacking multiple billed lines per visit.
- –High-deductible plan members often find cash-pay PT packages cheaper than their negotiated insurance rates.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.How many units do you typically bill per session, and what will each visit cost me?
- 2.How many PT visits does my plan allow per year, and does that count all therapy types combined?
- 3.Do you need to get authorization after a certain number of visits?
- 4.What is your cash rate per visit, and is it cheaper than my insurance rate before my deductible is met?
- 5.How much of each session will be one-on-one with the therapist versus independent exercise?
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Physical Therapy (Therapeutic Exercise) in Alabama: questions
Alabama is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 97110 is $27.20 in an office and $27.20 in a hospital, statewide. A ZIP lookup still confirms the locality mapping.
Not on the physician fee schedule. Alabama uses one locality, so the Medicare physician rate is the same from one end of the state to the other. What still changes is site of service (office vs hospital) and any facility fee the hospital bills on its own claim.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $5 for the office physician line or $5 for the hospital physician line in Alabama. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $27.20 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 97110. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. Alabama ranks #3 of 51 states on this physician line (6% below the national office rate of $29.06).