Incision & Drainage of Abscess Cost in Missouri
I&d abscess simple/single
Missouri Medicare physician rate (2026)
-5.5% vs nationalAverage of 3 localities. Office range $116.82–$124.55.
Your ZIP in Missouri
Enter a ZIP code to see which Missouri locality covers you: metro St. Louis, metro Kansas City, or rest-of-state areas like Springfield, Columbia, Joplin, and the Bootheel.
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 Missouri the office and hospital physician lines for this CPT differ by $25.75.
National vs Missouri
Where Missouri ranks for this CPT
CPT 10060 by Missouri locality
| Locality | Office |
|---|---|
| metropolitan st. louis | $124.55 |
| metropolitan kansas city | $123.34 |
| rest of missouri | $116.82 |
PE GPCI ranges from 0.862 to 0.952 in Missouri. That index is why the same CPT is not one price statewide.
Incision & Drainage of Abscess and how Missouri is priced
Missouri is a three-locality state: metropolitan St. Louis and metropolitan Kansas City are each priced separately, and everywhere else falls into a rest-of-state locality with lower geographic adjustments. Both metro localities approve higher amounts than outstate Missouri, and the Kansas City locality applies only to the Missouri side of that metro, since the Kansas side prices under Kansas's statewide locality. Springfield, Columbia, and the rural counties all share rest-of-state factors. The metro-versus-outstate gap is the main pricing story here.
St. Louis and Kansas City hold the state's academic medical centers and most of its specialty depth, drawing patients from far beyond Missouri's borders, including southern Illinois and eastern Kansas. Outstate Missouri is served by regional hubs in Springfield, Columbia, and Cape Girardeau, with the Ozarks and Bootheel among the harder places to reach specialty care. Rural hospital viability has been a persistent concern across the state.
This procedure: Incision and drainage of an abscess is a quick office or urgent care procedure for a painful, pus-filled pocket under the skin, often caused by an infected hair follicle or a staph infection. The clinician numbs the area with a local injection, makes a small cut so the abscess can drain, and may pack the cavity with gauze. Most patients are in and out in under 30 minutes and go home the same day with wound care instructions.
What Is Incision & Drainage of Abscess?
Incision and drainage of an abscess is a quick office or urgent care procedure for a painful, pus-filled pocket under the skin, often caused by an infected hair follicle or a staph infection. The clinician numbs the area with a local injection, makes a small cut so the abscess can drain, and may pack the cavity with gauze. Most patients are in and out in under 30 minutes and go home the same day with wound care instructions.
What Affects the Cost
- Where you go matters enormously: the same drainage in an emergency department can cost several times what a primary care office or urgent care clinic charges.
- If the drained material is sent for a wound culture to identify the bacteria, the lab bills that test separately.
- A prescription antibiotic afterward, especially a brand-name drug for resistant staph, adds pharmacy cost on top of the procedure.
- Packing changes or a recheck visit a few days later are usually billed as separate follow-up encounters.
- A larger or deeper abscess may be coded as complicated (CPT 10061), which pays at a higher rate than this simple, single-abscess code.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.Can this be handled at urgent care or your office instead of the emergency department?
- 2.Will you send a culture to the lab, and what will that test cost me?
- 3.Is a follow-up packing change included, or is each recheck billed as a separate visit?
- 4.Will I be billed a facility fee on top of your fee at this location?
- 5.If the abscess is more complicated than expected, does the billing code and price change?
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Incision & Drainage of Abscess in Missouri: questions
How much does incision & drainage of abscess cost in Missouri?
The 2026 Medicare physician office rate for CPT 10060 averages $121.57 across 3 Missouri localities, from $116.82 in REST OF MISSOURI to $124.55 in METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS. The hospital physician rate averages $95.82. Enter a ZIP for the exact locality.
Does the rate change inside Missouri?
Yes. CMS splits Missouri into 3 payment localities. For this CPT the office physician fee spans $7.73 from the lowest to highest locality. Enter a ZIP code to see which Missouri locality covers you: metro St. Louis, metro Kansas City, or rest-of-state areas like Springfield, Columbia, Joplin, and the Bootheel.
What will a Medicare patient owe for the physician fee?
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $24 for the office physician line or $19 for the hospital physician line in Missouri. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
Is this the full incision & drainage of abscess bill in Missouri?
No. $121.57 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 10060. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. Missouri ranks #17 of 51 states on this physician line (5% below the national office rate of $128.59).