Physical Therapy (Manual Therapy) Cost in Indiana
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$26.60Indiana 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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Indiana Medicare physician rate (2026)
-4.0% vs nationalSingle statewide locality.
Your ZIP in Indiana
Look up your ZIP for Indiana figures, whether in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Evansville, South Bend, the Region near Chicago, or the rural counties along the Ohio River.
What physical therapy (manual therapy) costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Indiana 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 Indiana
Where Indiana ranks for this CPT
Physical Therapy (Manual Therapy) and how Indiana is priced
Indiana's Medicare physician rates come from a single statewide locality with indices a bit under the national average, placing it in the moderate band of Midwest pricing. Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Evansville, and the smallest rural counties all share identical geographic adjustments. Northwest Indiana sits inside the Chicago metropolitan area but is still priced under Indiana's statewide locality rather than Chicago's, which creates a visible pricing seam at the state line. For most Hoosiers the statewide fee schedule is a dependable guide to Medicare-approved amounts.
Indianapolis dominates the state's health care landscape, hosting its academic medical center and the headquarters of its largest systems, while regional hubs in Fort Wayne, Evansville, and South Bend cover their surrounding counties. Indiana's hospital prices for commercially insured patients have drawn national attention for running high relative to the region, which makes Medicare benchmarks a valuable reference for anyone paying cash. Rural southern Indiana often looks to Louisville or Cincinnati across the river.
This procedure: Manual therapy is the hands-on treatment code of physical therapy: joint mobilization, soft tissue work, manual stretching, and manipulation performed directly by the therapist's hands, billed in 15-minute units. It addresses stiffness, restricted joints, and muscle tightness, and typically occupies one unit within a session that also includes exercise. Patients experience it as targeted, sometimes intense, hands-on work on the problem area.
What Is Physical Therapy (Manual Therapy)?
Manual therapy is the hands-on treatment code of physical therapy: joint mobilization, soft tissue work, manual stretching, and manipulation performed directly by the therapist's hands, billed in 15-minute units. It addresses stiffness, restricted joints, and muscle tightness, and typically occupies one unit within a session that also includes exercise. Patients experience it as targeted, sometimes intense, hands-on work on the problem area.
What Affects the Cost
- –Like all timed PT codes, it bills per 15-minute unit, and it usually appears alongside therapeutic exercise units, adding a line to every visit's bill.
- –Chiropractors and PTs both bill this code, and payer rules about billing it on the same day as spinal manipulation create claim complications in chiropractic settings.
- –The share of your session spent hands-on versus exercising shifts the code mix and the total.
- –Hospital-based clinics layer facility fees on top of professional charges for identical treatment.
- –Extended courses for chronic conditions accumulate this add-on unit across dozens of visits.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.How many minutes of hands-on manual therapy will my sessions actually include?
- 2.Will this be billed alongside exercise units, and what does the combined session cost?
- 3.If I am seeing a chiropractor, will billing this with manipulation cause claim denials on my plan?
- 4.Does the treatment plan justify manual therapy at every visit, or only early on?
- 5.How does dropping or adding this unit change my per-visit cost?
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Physical Therapy (Manual Therapy) in Indiana: questions
Indiana is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 97140 is $26.60 in an office and $26.60 in a hospital, statewide. A ZIP lookup still confirms the locality mapping.
Not on the physician fee schedule. Indiana 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 Indiana. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $26.60 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 97140. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. Indiana ranks #13 of 51 states on this physician line (4% below the national office rate of $27.72).