Physical Therapy (Manual Therapy) Cost in Kansas
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Kansas Medicare physician rate (2026)
-5.1% 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
Physical Therapy (Manual Therapy) 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: 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 Kansas: questions
How much does physical therapy (manual therapy) cost in Kansas?
Kansas is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 97140 is $26.31 in an office and $26.31 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 $5 for the office physician line or $5 for the hospital physician line in Kansas. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
Is this the full physical therapy (manual therapy) bill in Kansas?
No. $26.31 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 97140. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. Kansas ranks #7 of 51 states on this physician line (5% below the national office rate of $27.72).