How much does Medicare pay for CPT 93015?

Medicare allowed an average of $66.28 per service and paid $51.76 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $289.89, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 93015?

Exercise or drug-induced heart stress test with electrocardiogram (ecg) with supervision and review by physician. It was billed 778,779 times to 767,936 Medicare beneficiaries by 7,613 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 93015 most?

Cardiology, with 598,604 services from 5,535 clinicians. Next are Interventional Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology.

CPT 93015

Exercise or drug-induced heart stress test with electrocardiogram (ecg) with supervision and review by physician

$66.28Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 778,779 services

Providers submitted

$289.89

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$66.28

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$51.76

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $289.89 for this code and Medicare allowed $66.28 — 4.4× less. That gap is normal and means nothing on its own: Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of what is billed, so the submitted figure describes a hospital chargemaster, not a price anyone paid. Of the allowed amount Medicare paid $51.76 (78%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 778,779
Beneficiaries: 767,936
Providers billing it: 7,613
Total allowed: $51,617,472

What Medicare pays for CPT 93015

Across 778,779 services billed by 7,613 providers to 767,936 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $66.28 per service. The allowed amount is the figure that matters: it is what Medicare and the patient together owe, set by the fee schedule and adjusted for local practice costs. What a provider chose to submit has no bearing on it.

Who bills 93015

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Cardiology	598,604	590,105	$66.50	5,535
Interventional Cardiology	114,279	112,972	$64.87	1,138
Internal Medicine	24,887	24,417	$65.47	399
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology	14,391	14,089	$67.53	180
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	7,188	7,155	$74.84	19
Nuclear Medicine	4,367	4,296	$69.22	39
Nurse Practitioner	4,017	3,991	$56.58	91
Physician Assistant	2,518	2,500	$58.81	33
Family Practice	2,149	2,109	$63.84	67
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology	2,147	2,133	$70.70	40
Cardiac Surgery	851	843	$68.08	8
Diagnostic Radiology	700	686	$65.35	18
Hospitalist	562	558	$69.78	8
Pulmonary Disease	416	388	$78.04	6
Undefined Physician type	355	355	$68.36	4

93015 reimbursement by state

Two different numbers. Allowed is what Medicare actually allowed in that state, which includes the local practice-cost adjustment. Standardized strips that geographic adjustment out of the payment, so it is the column to use when comparing states — a difference there reflects how the code was billed, not what it costs to run a practice locally.

State	Services	Allowed	Standardized pmt	Providers
Florida	113,557	$63.93	$50.46	1,052
California	108,548	$73.64	$51.75	902
Texas	92,568	$64.02	$51.07	867
New York	72,013	$72.13	$49.85	688
New Jersey	40,480	$70.23	$49.68	404
Maryland	37,374	$68.26	$50.11	275
Arizona	37,279	$63.64	$49.93	305
Georgia	24,548	$62.21	$49.74	274
Virginia	22,599	$67.07	$50.59	223
Pennsylvania	21,822	$68.12	$51.34	259
Illinois	20,032	$66.26	$50.42	176
South Carolina	15,800	$59.75	$49.40	150
Louisiana	15,570	$59.80	$50.11	159
Nevada	14,568	$65.03	$52.50	107
Alabama	14,557	$57.83	$50.54	153
North Carolina	13,470	$59.42	$48.69	198
Michigan	13,239	$62.39	$49.06	190
Massachusetts	12,089	$69.51	$49.01	154
Tennessee	10,422	$59.36	$49.16	102
Mississippi	9,600	$60.06	$51.13	71
Kansas	8,082	$57.87	$49.23	47
Delaware	6,478	$64.39	$51.12	38
Ohio	6,464	$58.54	$48.59	95
Connecticut	5,746	$68.37	$48.54	123
Kentucky	3,699	$59.90	$49.45	43
Washington	3,190	$65.90	$49.74	73
Wisconsin	3,170	$61.66	$48.13	54
Indiana	3,093	$58.68	$48.29	40
Oklahoma	2,607	$58.89	$50.09	14
Iowa	2,503	$59.75	$49.37	37
Nebraska	2,483	$57.82	$48.92	24
District of Columbia	2,469	$74.17	$50.41	31
Missouri	2,406	$60.45	$49.20	42
Arkansas	2,379	$58.87	$50.60	25
West Virginia	1,788	$57.61	$49.59	10
Colorado	1,655	$65.53	$49.09	44
Oregon	1,578	$64.98	$49.62	22
Rhode Island	1,499	$67.94	$49.77	21
Alaska	1,425	$81.44	$52.84	16
New Mexico	1,156	$60.24	$50.24	8
Utah	1,027	$65.35	$51.06	19
Wyoming	886	$66.87	$49.47	10
Minnesota	761	$64.88	$48.25	17
Puerto Rico	649	$63.68	$49.13	20
Idaho	510	$61.68	$51.54	4
Hawaii	372	$68.01	$48.78	9
Vermont	153	$62.99	$50.68	2
New Hampshire	138	$67.72	$53.58	6
Maine	97	$65.53	$48.07	4
Montana	97	$61.18	$48.35	3
North Dakota	54	$59.66	$49.14	2
Guam	30	$47.01	$54.25	1

Related codes

93010Routine electrocardiogram (ecg)$7.95
93000Routine electrocardiogram (ecg)$14.24
93018Exercise or drug-induced heart stress test$13.43
93016Exercise or drug-induced heart stress test$20.06
93005Routine electrocardiogram (ecg)$6.15
93042Electrocardiogram (ecg) 1 to 3 leads$6.79
93040Electrocardiogram (ecg) 1 to 3 leads$13.18
93017Exercise or drug-induced heart stress test$31.71
93041Electrocardiogram (ecg) 1 to 3 leads$6.52
93050Analysis of central arterial pressure$14.83

Billing this code is not the same as earning it

An allowed amount is revenue to a practice, not income to a clinician. It funds staff, premises, equipment and supplies before anyone is paid. What clinicians actually earn is published separately by the Department of Labor, and what industry pays them is published separately again by CMS — this site carries both.

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Where this comes from. CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, by Provider and Service, 2024. It covers fee-for-service Original Medicare Part B only — not Medicare Advantage, not Medicaid, and not commercial insurance, which typically pays more for the same code.

How it is averaged. CMS publishes one average per provider per code. Every figure here is re-weighted by the number of services, so a clinician who billed the code 4,000 times counts 4,000 times more than one who billed it twice. CMS also suppresses any provider-code pair with fewer than 11 beneficiaries, so low-volume practice is missing from these totals by design.