Physical Therapy (Therapeutic Exercise) Cost in New Mexico
Therapeutic exercises
$27.99New Mexico physician fee2026 Medicare office rate- ✓Your ZIP's wage-adjusted hospital and surgery centre rates
- ✓Five nearby hospitals by name, with CMS star ratings
- ✓The add-on codes that typically land on the bill
- ✓A word-for-word script for asking for a good-faith estimate
- ✓A private link you can reopen and share
- ✓Everything in the Premium report
- ✓15 nearby hospitals instead of five
- ✓Filled good-faith-estimate request letter
- ✓Bill-negotiation letter
- ✓Printable PDF download
New Mexico Medicare physician rate (2026)
-3.7% vs nationalSingle statewide locality.
Your ZIP in New Mexico
Enter your ZIP code for local context, whether Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Cruces, Farmington, Roswell, or the rural pueblos and high desert in between.
What physical therapy (therapeutic exercise) costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in New Mexico moves the bill more than anything else you control.
Rates for your ZIP, 5 named hospitals with CMS ratings, the add-on codes, and the scheduler script.
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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.
National vs New Mexico
Where New Mexico ranks for this CPT
Physical Therapy (Therapeutic Exercise) and how New Mexico is priced
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.
This procedure: Therapeutic exercise is the foundational hands-on-guidance code of physical therapy: strength, range-of-motion, and flexibility exercises prescribed and supervised by a PT to restore function after injury or surgery. It is billed in 15-minute units, so a typical session includes two to four units of this code, often mixed with other billed services. Expect active work: you exercise while the therapist coaches, corrects form, and progresses the program visit by visit.
What Is Physical Therapy (Therapeutic Exercise)?
Therapeutic exercise is the foundational hands-on-guidance code of physical therapy: strength, range-of-motion, and flexibility exercises prescribed and supervised by a PT to restore function after injury or surgery. It is billed in 15-minute units, so a typical session includes two to four units of this code, often mixed with other billed services. Expect active work: you exercise while the therapist coaches, corrects form, and progresses the program visit by visit.
What Affects the Cost
- –Billing is per 15-minute unit, so the number of units per visit, not just the number of visits, drives your bill.
- –A full rehab course after surgery commonly spans 10 to 36 visits, making the per-visit total a recurring weekly expense.
- –Hospital-owned therapy clinics attach facility fees that private PT practices do not.
- –Sessions usually combine this code with others like manual therapy (97140), stacking multiple billed lines per visit.
- –High-deductible plan members often find cash-pay PT packages cheaper than their negotiated insurance rates.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.How many units do you typically bill per session, and what will each visit cost me?
- 2.How many PT visits does my plan allow per year, and does that count all therapy types combined?
- 3.Do you need to get authorization after a certain number of visits?
- 4.What is your cash rate per visit, and is it cheaper than my insurance rate before my deductible is met?
- 5.How much of each session will be one-on-one with the therapist versus independent exercise?
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Physical Therapy (Therapeutic Exercise) in New Mexico: questions
New Mexico is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 97110 is $27.99 in an office and $27.99 in a hospital, statewide. A ZIP lookup still confirms the locality mapping.
Not on the physician fee schedule. New Mexico 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.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $6 for the office physician line or $6 for the hospital physician line in New Mexico. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $27.99 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 97110. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. New Mexico ranks #17 of 51 states on this physician line (4% below the national office rate of $29.06).