CPT96920

How Much Does Laser Treatment for Skin Cost in Kansas?

Excimer lsr psriasis<250sqcm

$126.77In-office total2026 Medicare, Kansas average

Under 2026 Medicare rates, laser treatment for skin in a doctor's office costs about $127 in Kansas, with no separate facility fee. In a facility the national total is up to about $246 at a hospital outpatient department, because the facility is paid its own rate on top of the physician.

Hospital payments are wage-adjusted by locality, so the ZIP changes the numbers.
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Kansas Medicare physician rate (2026)

-8.1% vs national

Single statewide locality.

Kansas (Hospital)
$39.20
Facility physician fee
Private plan est.
$165–$254
~130–200% of Medicare
Cash / self-pay est.
$101–$190
~80–150% of Medicare

What it costs in a hospital or surgery center

In a doctor’s office, the office rate above is the whole Medicare payment. When the same procedure is done in a hospital or surgery center, the facility bills its own fee on top of the physician, which is what these totals show. They are 2026 national Medicare amounts.

Physician fee alone
$41
Only 17% of the hospital total

Medicare may pay the facility separately for this code or package it into another service on the same day, so treat the facility share as an upper bound. Medicare allowed amounts are not what an uninsured patient is charged, and not a quote. Private plans typically allow more.

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 laser treatment for skin costs at hospitals near you

Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Kansas moves the bill more than anything else you control.

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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 center 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. In Kansas the office and hospital physician lines for this CPT differ by $87.57.

National vs Kansas

National office$137.95
National hospital (physician)$41.08
Kansas vs national8% below the national office rate of $137.95

Where Kansas ranks for this CPT

Rank (lowest physician fee first)#7 of 51
Lowest stateArkansas ($121.85)
Highest stateDistrict of Columbia ($159.06)

Laser Treatment for Skin 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: This is laser treatment, typically with an excimer laser, for inflammatory skin disease such as psoriasis or vitiligo covering a total area under 250 square centimeters, roughly the size of a hand or two. The laser delivers targeted ultraviolet light only to affected patches, sparing normal skin and allowing stronger dosing than whole-body light booths. Each session takes 10 to 20 minutes with a mild sunburn-like sensation, and a course involves two or three sessions weekly for several weeks.

What Is Laser Treatment for Skin?

This is laser treatment, typically with an excimer laser, for inflammatory skin disease such as psoriasis or vitiligo covering a total area under 250 square centimeters, roughly the size of a hand or two. The laser delivers targeted ultraviolet light only to affected patches, sparing normal skin and allowing stronger dosing than whole-body light booths. Each session takes 10 to 20 minutes with a mild sunburn-like sensation, and a course involves two or three sessions weekly for several weeks.

What Affects the Cost

  • –This is inherently a multi-session therapy, often 12 to 30 treatments per course, so the per-session price multiplied by the protocol defines the real cost.
  • –Cost sharing applies per session on most plans, so even modest copays accumulate across a full course.
  • –Larger treatment areas bill under higher-tier codes (96921, 96922), so the extent of your psoriasis changes the code and price.
  • –Maintenance sessions after clearance, if needed, extend the spending beyond the initial course.
  • –Alternatives compete on cost: topical treatments are cheaper, while biologic drugs are far more expensive, positioning laser in the middle of psoriasis economics.

Questions to Ask Before Booking

  • 1.How many sessions does my treatment plan involve, and what is my cost per session?
  • 2.Has prior authorization been approved, and for how many sessions?
  • 3.What happens to coverage if I need maintenance treatments after clearing?
  • 4.Have we documented that topicals failed, since my insurer may require that first?
  • 5.How does the total course cost compare with my other treatment options?

Laser Treatment for Skin in Kansas: questions

Under 2026 Medicare rates, laser treatment for skin in a doctor's office costs about $127 in Kansas, with no separate facility fee. In a facility the national total is up to about $246 at a hospital outpatient department, because the facility is paid its own rate on top of the physician. Kansas is a single Medicare locality, so the physician rate is the same statewide.

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.

After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $25 for the office physician line or $8 for the hospital physician line in Kansas. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.

In a doctor's office, $126.77 is Medicare's whole payment in Kansas: it covers the physician, the room and the supplies, with no separate facility fee. If it is done in a hospital outpatient department instead, the physician is paid about $39.20 and the hospital adds its own facility payment, bringing the national total to up to about $246. Services billed under other codes, such as lab work, are extra. Kansas ranks #7 of 51 states on the office rate (8% below the national office rate of $137.95).

Data source: 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (CMS PPRRVU26B, released March 2026). Conversion factor: $33.4009. Prices shown are Medicare allowed amounts for the physician service and may not match what you are billed. Private insurance and self-pay ranges, when shown, are labeled estimates (typical multiples of Medicare), not quotes. This site is an independent cost tool, not medical advice.