Medical Procedure Costs in New Hampshire
New Hampshire Medicare physician rates are generally near the national average. One statewide locality, and the ZIP tool still maps you onto it.
Look up any CPT in New Hampshire
Featured table below is 66 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 center 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 New Hampshire averages are unweighted means of the state’s localities, not population-weighted.
How Medicare prices New Hampshire
New Hampshire is priced as one statewide locality with geographic indices above the national average, keeping company with its high-cost New England neighbors. From Nashua to the North Country, the fee schedule applies identical adjustments, even though the southern tier is economically an extension of greater Boston. CMS has never split the state, so the Massachusetts border is also a pricing border: cross it southbound and the metro Boston locality takes over. That makes New Hampshire a clear example of how locality lines, not just providers, shape what Medicare approves.
Southern New Hampshire residents routinely use Boston hospitals for complex care, accepting metro pricing in exchange for academic-center depth, while the state's own tertiary referral center sits in the west near the Vermont border. The Lakes Region and North Country rely on small rural hospitals with limited procedure menus. No state income or sales tax attracts retirees, steadily raising Medicare demand.
Check your ZIP for local context, whether you are in Manchester, Nashua, Concord, the Seacoast around Portsmouth, the Lakes Region, or the North Country.
Featured physician rates in New Hampshire
Office (non-facility) physician rates. Open a row for the locality table and ZIP tool.
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Medical costs in New Hampshire: questions
Across the 66 featured procedures on this page, New Hampshire sits near the national average. Examples: incision & drainage of abscess $132, skin biopsy (tangential) $98, skin biopsy (punch) $125. Search any other CPT in the box above; those codes are in the tool, not as extra New Hampshire articles.
New Hampshire 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.
The table shows Medicare physician allowed amounts in an office: the professional fee after GPCI, which for imaging and other tests done outside a hospital is the full global rate. It does not include hospital facility charges, anesthesia, or your plan’s contracted rate; each procedure page adds the full hospital or surgery center total where CMS pays one. Medicare patients typically owe 20% of the allowed amount after the Part B deductible, before Medigap.
Yes. The table is the featured set (66 procedures). The search box looks up 7,500+ payable codes from the 2026 fee schedule and applies New Hampshire’s locality when you enter a ZIP.