Medical Procedure Costs in Arkansas
Arkansas Medicare physician rates are generally below the national average (-10.4%). One statewide locality, and the ZIP tool still maps you onto it.
Look up any CPT in Arkansas
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 Arkansas averages are unweighted means of the state’s localities, not population-weighted.
How Medicare prices Arkansas
One payment locality covers the whole of Arkansas, and its geographic indices are among the lowest CMS publishes, so Medicare-approved amounts here sit near the bottom of the national range. A clinic visit in Little Rock is priced with the same adjustments as one in the Delta or the Ozarks. For consumers this means the statewide numbers on this site are a close match for almost any Arkansas address. The bigger price swings come from whether a procedure is billed in a hospital department or an independent office.
Little Rock is the state's referral hub, home to its academic medical center and the densest concentration of specialists, with Northwest Arkansas growing quickly as a second center of care. Large parts of the Delta and the mountain counties have limited local options, so traveling for procedures is routine. Lower area wages also mean cash prices for care in Arkansas often undercut national averages.
Try a ZIP lookup to see rates for your corner of Arkansas, whether around Little Rock, the fast-growing Fayetteville and Springdale corridor, Fort Smith, Jonesboro, or the rural Delta.
Featured physician rates in Arkansas
Office (non-facility) physician rates. Open a row for the locality table and ZIP tool.
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Medical costs in Arkansas: questions
Across the 66 featured procedures on this page, Arkansas sits below the national average by about 10%. Examples: incision & drainage of abscess $115, skin biopsy (tangential) $84, skin biopsy (punch) $107. Search any other CPT in the box above; those codes are in the tool, not as extra Arkansas articles.
Arkansas 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 Arkansas’s locality when you enter a ZIP.