Medical Procedure Costs in Alaska
Alaska Medicare physician rates are generally above the national average (+20.2%). One statewide locality, and the ZIP tool still maps you onto it.
Look up any CPT in Alaska
Featured table below is 66 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 center 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 Alaska averages are unweighted means of the state’s localities, not population-weighted.
How Medicare prices Alaska
Alaska stands apart in the Medicare fee schedule: it is a single statewide locality, but federal law sets a permanent 1.5 floor on its physician work adjustment, the highest geographic treatment in the country. Combined with elevated practice expense indices that reflect the real cost of running a clinic in a remote state, Alaska's Medicare-approved amounts are consistently the highest of any state. Every community from Anchorage to the smallest bush village prices off the same locality, so the premium applies statewide rather than only in the cities.
Anchorage holds most of the state's specialists, and Fairbanks and Juneau add regional capacity, but many Alaskans still fly to Anchorage or even Seattle for complex procedures. Travel and lodging can rival the medical bill itself for residents of remote communities, which makes planning ahead unusually important here. Tribal health facilities also play a large role in care delivery across much of the state.
Look up your ZIP code to see Alaska's adjusted rates, whether you are in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, the Mat-Su Valley, or a fly-in community off the road system.
Featured physician rates in Alaska
Office (non-facility) physician rates. Open a row for the locality table and ZIP tool.
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Medical costs in Alaska: questions
Across the 66 featured procedures on this page, Alaska sits above the national average by about 20%. Examples: incision & drainage of abscess $152, skin biopsy (tangential) $110, skin biopsy (punch) $139. Search any other CPT in the box above; those codes are in the tool, not as extra Alaska articles.
Alaska 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.
The table shows Medicare physician allowed amounts in an office: the professional fee after GPCI, which for imaging and other tests done outside a hospital is the full global rate. It does not include hospital facility charges, anesthesia, or your plan’s contracted rate; each procedure page adds the full hospital or surgery center total where CMS pays one. Medicare patients typically owe 20% of the allowed amount after the Part B deductible, before Medigap.
Yes. The table is the featured set (66 procedures). The search box looks up 7,500+ payable codes from the 2026 fee schedule and applies Alaska’s locality when you enter a ZIP.