Skin Biopsy (Tangential) Cost in Kansas
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Kansas Medicare physician rate (2026)
-8.3% 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 $59.18.
National vs Kansas
Where Kansas ranks for this CPT
Skin Biopsy (Tangential) 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: A tangential skin biopsy removes a thin shaving from the surface of a suspicious spot using a flexible blade, without cutting deep into the skin. It is the go-to technique when a dermatologist wants to test a raised or scaly lesion for skin cancer or another skin condition. The area is numbed with a small injection, the shave itself takes seconds, and no stitches are needed; the site heals like a scrape over one to two weeks.
What Is Skin Biopsy (Tangential)?
A tangential skin biopsy removes a thin shaving from the surface of a suspicious spot using a flexible blade, without cutting deep into the skin. It is the go-to technique when a dermatologist wants to test a raised or scaly lesion for skin cancer or another skin condition. The area is numbed with a small injection, the shave itself takes seconds, and no stitches are needed; the site heals like a scrape over one to two weeks.
What Affects the Cost
- The pathologist who examines the tissue under a microscope bills a separate professional fee, and that charge often exceeds the biopsy itself.
- Each additional lesion shaved at the same visit is billed with an add-on code (11103), so multiple spots multiply the cost.
- If the shave visit also includes a full skin exam, an office visit charge is typically billed alongside the biopsy.
- Special pathology stains or a second dermatopathologist opinion on an ambiguous mole add further lab charges.
- Hospital-owned dermatology clinics can add a facility fee that a private dermatology office would not charge.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.Which pathology lab will read my biopsy, and is it in my insurance network?
- 2.Roughly what does the pathology reading cost in addition to the biopsy fee?
- 3.If you biopsy more than one spot today, how does that change my bill?
- 4.Will today's skin check be billed as a separate office visit on top of the biopsy?
- 5.Is this being coded as medically necessary rather than cosmetic?
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Skin Biopsy (Tangential) in Kansas: questions
How much does skin biopsy (tangential) cost in Kansas?
Kansas is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 11102 is $87.61 in an office and $28.43 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 $18 for the office physician line or $6 for the hospital physician line in Kansas. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
Is this the full skin biopsy (tangential) bill in Kansas?
No. $87.61 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 11102. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. Kansas ranks #7 of 51 states on this physician line (8% below the national office rate of $95.53).