Total Knee Replacement Cost in Kansas
Total knee arthroplasty
Kansas Medicare physician rate (2026)
-8.9% 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
Total Knee Replacement 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: Total knee replacement resurfaces the ends of the thigh and shin bones and usually the kneecap with metal and plastic components after arthritis has worn away the cartilage. It is among the most common elective surgeries in the United States. The operation lasts one to two hours under spinal or general anesthesia, and recovery is more demanding than hip replacement: expect several months of dedicated physical therapy to regain bending and strength.
What Is Total Knee Replacement?
Total knee replacement resurfaces the ends of the thigh and shin bones and usually the kneecap with metal and plastic components after arthritis has worn away the cartilage. It is among the most common elective surgeries in the United States. The operation lasts one to two hours under spinal or general anesthesia, and recovery is more demanding than hip replacement: expect several months of dedicated physical therapy to regain bending and strength.
What Affects the Cost
- Physical therapy is a bigger cost driver here than for almost any other surgery, because knee recovery typically requires more visits over more months.
- Facility choice, hospital inpatient versus outpatient surgery center, can swing the total by a large margin.
- The implant system and any patient-specific or robotic-assisted instrumentation add to the facility charge.
- Nerve blocks for post-operative pain control are billed by anesthesia as separate procedures.
- A stay in a skilled nursing or inpatient rehab facility, if you cannot go straight home, adds a substantial per-day cost.
- Manipulation under anesthesia, needed by a minority of patients whose knee stiffens, is an additional procedure with its own charges.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.How many physical therapy visits will I realistically need, and how many does my plan cover per year?
- 2.Can my surgery be done outpatient, and what is the price difference at each facility you operate in?
- 3.Is prior authorization fully approved, including the conservative treatment documentation?
- 4.Will I get a nerve block, and is the anesthesia group in my network?
- 5.If I need a rehab facility stay instead of going home, what would that cost under my plan?
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Total Knee Replacement in Kansas: questions
How much does total knee replacement cost in Kansas?
Kansas is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 27447 is $1,055.62 in an office and $1,055.62 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 $211 for the office physician line or $211 for the hospital physician line in Kansas. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
Is this the full total knee replacement bill in Kansas?
No. $1,055.62 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 27447. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. Kansas ranks #6 of 51 states on this physician line (9% below the national office rate of $1,159.35).