How much does Medicare pay for CPT 93041?

Medicare allowed an average of $6.52 per service and paid $4.98 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $27.40, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 93041?

Electrocardiogram (ecg) 1 to 3 leads. It was billed 10,983 times to 9,143 Medicare beneficiaries by 82 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 93041 most?

Cardiology, with 5,208 services from 32 clinicians. Next are Internal Medicine, Neurology, Interventional Cardiology.

CPT 93041

Electrocardiogram (ecg) 1 to 3 leads

$6.52Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 10,983 services

Providers submitted

$27.40

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$6.52

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$4.98

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $27.40 for this code and Medicare allowed $6.52 — 4.2× 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 $4.98 (76%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 10,983
Beneficiaries: 9,143
Providers billing it: 82
Total allowed: $71,609

What Medicare pays for CPT 93041

Across 10,983 services billed by 82 providers to 9,143 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $6.52 per service. That is 1.2 services per beneficiary, so this is a code patients typically receive more than once. 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 93041

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Cardiology	5,208	5,037	$6.60	32
Internal Medicine	1,112	957	$7.15	9
Neurology	796	364	$5.82	4
Interventional Cardiology	679	663	$6.10	3
Pain Management	663	90	$6.43	4
Orthopedic Surgery	568	553	$5.18	6
Colorectal Surgery (Proctology)	479	459	$7.67	2
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology	457	431	$6.37	5
Anesthesiology	441	135	$6.26	4
Interventional Pain Management	264	141	$7.24	1
Diagnostic Radiology	137	135	$6.67	1
Emergency Medicine	74	73	$5.79	5
Family Practice	41	41	$6.55	3
General Practice	27	27	$6.06	1
Psychiatry	26	26	$5.84	1

93041 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
California	3,854	$6.85	$4.78	14
Florida	2,433	$6.17	$4.76	7
New Jersey	1,550	$6.97	$4.92	26
Pennsylvania	907	$6.11	$4.98	6
New York	905	$6.93	$4.91	9
Mississippi	568	$5.18	$4.49	6
Texas	440	$6.00	$3.45	7
Illinois	164	$6.57	$4.84	2
Alabama	83	$5.26	$4.70	2
Nebraska	56	$5.51	$4.96	1
Michigan	12	$6.37	$3.47	1
Tennessee	11	$5.45	$4.15	1

Related codes

93010Routine electrocardiogram (ecg)$7.95
93000Routine electrocardiogram (ecg)$14.24
93018Exercise or drug-induced heart stress test$13.43
93015Exercise or drug-induced heart stress test$66.28
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
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.