Incision & Drainage of Abscess Cost in Kansas
I&d abscess simple/single
Kansas Medicare physician rate (2026)
-8.0% vs nationalSingle statewide locality.
Your ZIP in Kansas
Enter a ZIP code for your part of Kansas, from Overland Park and the Kansas City suburbs to Wichita, Topeka, Lawrence, Salina, and the western High Plains.
What this number is
The figures on this page are 2026 Medicare physician allowed amounts for a specific CPT code: the professional fee, adjusted by geographic practice-cost indices. They are not a hospital chargemaster price, not your insurer's contracted rate, and not a quote. Hospital facility fees, anesthesia, implants, imaging reads, and pathology are billed separately when they apply. In Kansas the office and hospital physician lines for this CPT differ by $25.37.
National vs Kansas
Where Kansas ranks for this CPT
Incision & Drainage of Abscess and how Kansas is priced
A single locality covers all of Kansas, with geographic indices in the lower national tier, so the published Medicare rates apply evenly from the Kansas City suburbs to the far western High Plains. Notably, the Kansas side of the Kansas City metro prices under the statewide Kansas locality while the Missouri side has its own metro locality, meaning the two halves of one city carry different approved amounts. Beyond that quirk, Kansas pricing is straightforwardly uniform. Wichita, Topeka, and rural Kansas all share the same adjustments.
The Kansas City metro and Wichita hold most of the state's specialists, with the academic medical center on the Kansas side of the metro serving as the top referral point. Western Kansas is genuinely frontier in places, with long distances to any hospital that performs advanced procedures, and some High Plains residents cross into Colorado or Nebraska for care. Critical access hospitals carry much of the rural load.
This procedure: Incision and drainage of an abscess is a quick office or urgent care procedure for a painful, pus-filled pocket under the skin, often caused by an infected hair follicle or a staph infection. The clinician numbs the area with a local injection, makes a small cut so the abscess can drain, and may pack the cavity with gauze. Most patients are in and out in under 30 minutes and go home the same day with wound care instructions.
What Is Incision & Drainage of Abscess?
Incision and drainage of an abscess is a quick office or urgent care procedure for a painful, pus-filled pocket under the skin, often caused by an infected hair follicle or a staph infection. The clinician numbs the area with a local injection, makes a small cut so the abscess can drain, and may pack the cavity with gauze. Most patients are in and out in under 30 minutes and go home the same day with wound care instructions.
What Affects the Cost
- Where you go matters enormously: the same drainage in an emergency department can cost several times what a primary care office or urgent care clinic charges.
- If the drained material is sent for a wound culture to identify the bacteria, the lab bills that test separately.
- A prescription antibiotic afterward, especially a brand-name drug for resistant staph, adds pharmacy cost on top of the procedure.
- Packing changes or a recheck visit a few days later are usually billed as separate follow-up encounters.
- A larger or deeper abscess may be coded as complicated (CPT 10061), which pays at a higher rate than this simple, single-abscess code.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.Can this be handled at urgent care or your office instead of the emergency department?
- 2.Will you send a culture to the lab, and what will that test cost me?
- 3.Is a follow-up packing change included, or is each recheck billed as a separate visit?
- 4.Will I be billed a facility fee on top of your fee at this location?
- 5.If the abscess is more complicated than expected, does the billing code and price change?
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Incision & Drainage of Abscess in Kansas: questions
How much does incision & drainage of abscess cost in Kansas?
Kansas is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 10060 is $118.33 in an office and $92.96 in a hospital, statewide. A ZIP lookup still confirms the locality mapping.
Does the rate change inside Kansas?
Not on the physician fee schedule. Kansas 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.
What will a Medicare patient owe for the physician fee?
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $24 for the office physician line or $19 for the hospital physician line in Kansas. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
Is this the full incision & drainage of abscess bill in Kansas?
No. $118.33 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 10060. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. Kansas ranks #4 of 51 states on this physician line (8% below the national office rate of $128.59).