Medical Procedure Costs in Minnesota
Minnesota Medicare physician rates are generally near the national average. One statewide locality — the ZIP tool still maps you onto that locality.
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Featured table below is 59 procedures. Search covers 7,500+ fee-schedule codes.
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 centre 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. These Minnesota averages are unweighted means of the state’s localities, not population-weighted.
How Medicare prices Minnesota
Minnesota's physician fees are set through a small number of Medicare payment localities rather than a single statewide one, distinguishing the Twin Cities region from the rest of the state. Geographic adjustments in the metro run higher than in greater Minnesota, though the gap is modest by coastal standards. The state is otherwise notable for how its practice patterns, historically efficient and integrated, have featured in national Medicare policy debates. From Duluth to Worthington, non-metro Minnesota prices off common lower-cost factors.
The Twin Cities host a dense, integrated medical market, and Rochester is home to one of the most famous referral centers in the world, drawing patients from every state and abroad. Greater Minnesota relies on regional hubs like Duluth, St. Cloud, and Mankato, with long winter drives a real factor in care planning. Minnesota's tradition of integrated group practice tends to make billing more coordinated than in many states.
Check your ZIP code for your part of Minnesota, whether Minneapolis-St. Paul, Rochester, Duluth, St. Cloud, Mankato, or the farm and lake country beyond.
Featured physician rates in Minnesota
Office (non-facility) physician rates. Open a row for the locality table and ZIP tool.
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Medical costs in Minnesota: questions
Across the 59 featured procedures on this page, Minnesota sits near the national average. Examples: incision & drainage of abscess $128, skin biopsy (tangential) $96, skin biopsy (punch) $122. Search any other CPT in the box above — those codes are in the tool, not as extra Minnesota articles.
Minnesota is one Medicare locality, so the physician fee schedule is statewide. Site of service (office vs hospital) and hospital facility fees still change what a patient is billed.
Medicare physician allowed amounts only — the professional fee after GPCI. They do not include hospital facility charges, anesthesia, or your plan’s contracted rate. Medicare patients typically owe 20% of the allowed amount after the Part B deductible, before Medigap.
Yes. The table is the featured set (59 procedures). The search box looks up 7,500+ payable codes from the 2026 fee schedule and applies Minnesota’s locality when you enter a ZIP.