Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Cost in Kansas
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
Kansas Medicare physician rate (2026)
-10.1% 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
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy 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: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy removes the gallbladder through four small abdominal incisions using a camera and long instruments, most often for painful gallstones or gallbladder inflammation. It is one of the most frequently performed general surgeries in the country. Under general anesthesia the operation takes about an hour, and most planned cases go home the same day, returning to normal activity within one to two weeks.
What Is Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy?
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy removes the gallbladder through four small abdominal incisions using a camera and long instruments, most often for painful gallstones or gallbladder inflammation. It is one of the most frequently performed general surgeries in the country. Under general anesthesia the operation takes about an hour, and most planned cases go home the same day, returning to normal activity within one to two weeks.
What Affects the Cost
- Whether the surgery is planned and outpatient or done urgently during a hospital admission for a gallbladder attack changes the total dramatically.
- An intraoperative cholangiogram, an X-ray of the bile ducts during surgery, adds imaging and radiology charges when performed.
- Conversion from laparoscopic to open surgery, needed in a small percentage of difficult cases, changes the code, extends recovery, and usually means a hospital stay.
- The gallbladder is routinely sent to pathology after removal, adding a lab fee.
- Anesthesia bills separately by time, and pre-operative labs and imaging carry their own charges.
- Ambulatory surgery centers, where available for this operation, undercut hospital outpatient pricing.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.Can my surgery be done as a scheduled outpatient case, and at which facility is it cheapest?
- 2.Do you routinely perform a cholangiogram, and what does it add to the bill?
- 3.What happens to the cost if you need to convert to open surgery?
- 4.Are the anesthesia group and the pathology lab in my network?
- 5.Has prior authorization been approved for both the procedure and the facility?
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Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in Kansas: questions
How much does laparoscopic cholecystectomy cost in Kansas?
Kansas is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 47562 is $568.34 in an office and $568.34 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 $114 for the office physician line or $114 for the hospital physician line in Kansas. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
Is this the full laparoscopic cholecystectomy bill in Kansas?
No. $568.34 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 47562. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. Kansas ranks #6 of 51 states on this physician line (10% below the national office rate of $631.95).