Medical Procedure Costs in New Mexico
New Mexico Medicare physician rates are generally below the national average (-4.1%). One statewide locality — the ZIP tool still maps you onto that locality.
Look up any CPT in New Mexico
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 New Mexico averages are unweighted means of the state’s localities, not population-weighted.
How Medicare prices New Mexico
A single statewide locality covers New Mexico, with geographic indices below the national average, so Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and the most remote high-desert communities share one set of Medicare-approved amounts. The state benefits from the floor CMS applies to the physician work index, which lifts low-cost states toward parity. Uniform pricing across a state this large and sparse means the fee schedule is the easy part; finding a provider is often the harder one. Las Cruces and the border region price identically to the Albuquerque metro.
Albuquerque holds the state's academic medical center and most of its specialists, and for many New Mexicans it is the only in-state option for advanced procedures. The Indian Health Service and tribal facilities are central to care across large parts of the state. Residents of the southeast often use Texas providers in Lubbock or El Paso, and northern communities sometimes look to Colorado.
Enter your ZIP code for local context, whether Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Cruces, Farmington, Roswell, or the rural pueblos and high desert in between.
Featured physician rates in New Mexico
Office (non-facility) physician rates. Open a row for the locality table and ZIP tool.
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Medical costs in New Mexico: questions
Across the 59 featured procedures on this page, New Mexico sits below the national average by about 4%. Examples: incision & drainage of abscess $122, skin biopsy (tangential) $90, skin biopsy (punch) $114. Search any other CPT in the box above — those codes are in the tool, not as extra New Mexico articles.
New Mexico 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 New Mexico’s locality when you enter a ZIP.