Cesarean Delivery (Global) Cost in Arkansas
Cesarean delivery
$2,168.55Arkansas 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
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Arkansas Medicare physician rate (2026)
-12.3% vs nationalSingle statewide locality.
Your ZIP in Arkansas
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.
What cesarean delivery (global) costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Arkansas 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 Arkansas
Where Arkansas ranks for this CPT
Cesarean Delivery (Global) and how Arkansas is priced
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.
This procedure: This is the global maternity package for a planned or unplanned cesarean birth: routine prenatal visits, the cesarean delivery, and postpartum care in a single physician fee. A cesarean is major abdominal surgery performed in an operating room under spinal or epidural anesthesia, usually taking under an hour, with the parent awake for the birth. The hospital stay is longer than for a vaginal birth, typically two to four nights, with a six-week surgical recovery at home.
What Is Cesarean Delivery (Global)?
This is the global maternity package for a planned or unplanned cesarean birth: routine prenatal visits, the cesarean delivery, and postpartum care in a single physician fee. A cesarean is major abdominal surgery performed in an operating room under spinal or epidural anesthesia, usually taking under an hour, with the parent awake for the birth. The hospital stay is longer than for a vaginal birth, typically two to four nights, with a six-week surgical recovery at home.
What Affects the Cost
- –Hospital facility charges are substantially higher than for vaginal delivery, driven by operating room time and the longer inpatient stay.
- –The anesthesiologist bills separately for the spinal or epidural and for attending the surgery.
- –The newborn's own hospital account starts at birth, and cesarean deliveries have higher rates of brief NICU observation, which is billed at NICU rates.
- –An assistant surgeon, common in cesareans, may bill an additional professional fee.
- –Prenatal ultrasounds, labs, and any high-risk specialist visits are billed outside the global package.
- –A scheduled cesarean is generally cheaper than one that follows a long, fully billed labor with an epidural already running.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.What are the hospital's facility charges for a cesarean, including the typical length of stay?
- 2.Will an assistant surgeon be present, and do they bill separately under my plan?
- 3.Is the anesthesiology group in network, and what does the spinal or epidural cost?
- 4.How likely is NICU observation for my situation, and how would that be billed for the baby?
- 5.If I am attempting vaginal birth first, how do charges stack if it converts to a cesarean?
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Cesarean Delivery (Global) in Arkansas: questions
Arkansas is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 59510 is $2,168.55 in an office and $2,168.55 in a hospital, statewide. A ZIP lookup still confirms the locality mapping.
Not on the physician fee schedule. Arkansas 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 $434 for the office physician line or $434 for the hospital physician line in Arkansas. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $2,168.55 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 59510. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. Arkansas ranks #4 of 51 states on this physician line (12% below the national office rate of $2,473.34).