Knee Arthroscopy Cost in Kansas
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Kansas Medicare physician rate (2026)
-9.0% 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.
National vs Kansas
Where Kansas ranks for this CPT
Knee Arthroscopy 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: Knee arthroscopy with meniscectomy is keyhole surgery in which the surgeon inserts a small camera into the knee and trims away the torn portion of the meniscus, the cartilage shock absorber between the bones. It treats meniscal tears causing pain, catching, or locking. The procedure takes 30 to 60 minutes under general or regional anesthesia at an outpatient surgery center, and most patients walk the same day and return to desk work within days.
What Is Knee Arthroscopy?
Knee arthroscopy with meniscectomy is keyhole surgery in which the surgeon inserts a small camera into the knee and trims away the torn portion of the meniscus, the cartilage shock absorber between the bones. It treats meniscal tears causing pain, catching, or locking. The procedure takes 30 to 60 minutes under general or regional anesthesia at an outpatient surgery center, and most patients walk the same day and return to desk work within days.
What Affects the Cost
- Ambulatory surgery centers typically charge far less for this procedure than hospital outpatient departments.
- A meniscus repair with sutures, if the tear pattern allows one, is a different code with a longer recovery and different pricing than simple trimming.
- The pre-operative MRI that diagnosed the tear is part of the true episode cost and may still be working through your deductible.
- Post-operative physical therapy visits, often 4 to 12 of them, are billed per visit on top of the surgery.
- Anesthesia bills separately, and a regional nerve block for pain control adds a line item.
- Any additional work done through the scope at the same time, such as cartilage smoothing, can add or change surgical codes.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.Is my tear traumatic or degenerative, and would a course of physical therapy first be a reasonable and cheaper option?
- 2.Will this be a meniscectomy or a repair, and how do the costs and recovery differ?
- 3.Can we book this at a freestanding surgery center rather than the hospital?
- 4.What other procedures might you perform once you are inside the knee, and how would they change the bill?
- 5.How many therapy visits will I need afterward and at what cost per visit?
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Knee Arthroscopy in Kansas: questions
How much does knee arthroscopy cost in Kansas?
Kansas is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 29881 is $469.46 in an office and $469.46 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 $94 for the office physician line or $94 for the hospital physician line in Kansas. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
Is this the full knee arthroscopy bill in Kansas?
No. $469.46 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 29881. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. Kansas ranks #5 of 51 states on this physician line (9% below the national office rate of $515.71).