How much does Medicare pay for CPT 93244?

Medicare allowed an average of $22.39 per service and paid $17.20 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $87.01, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 93244?

Heart rhythm review, and interpretation of continous external ekg over more than 48 hours up to 7 days. It was billed 212,608 times to 206,154 Medicare beneficiaries by 5,953 providers in 2024.

Does 93244 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $22.44 in an office setting and $22.26 in a facility. The office rate is generally higher because the practice supplies the room, staff and equipment out of that single payment; in a hospital those are billed separately by the facility.

Which specialty bills 93244 most?

Cardiology, with 127,633 services from 3,691 clinicians. Next are Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Interventional Cardiology, Internal Medicine.

CPT 93244

Heart rhythm review, and interpretation of continous external ekg over more than 48 hours up to 7 days

$22.39Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 212,608 services

Providers submitted

$87.01

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$22.39

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$17.20

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $87.01 for this code and Medicare allowed $22.39 — 3.9× 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 $17.20 (77%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $22.44
Hospital / facility: $22.26

The office rate is higher because the practice supplies the room, staff and equipment out of that payment. In a hospital the facility bills those separately, so the clinician's share is smaller — the total cost to Medicare is usually higher, not lower. 148,686 services were billed in an office setting and 63,922 in a facility.

Services: 212,608
Beneficiaries: 206,154
Providers billing it: 5,953
Total allowed: $4,760,293

What Medicare pays for CPT 93244

Across 212,608 services billed by 5,953 providers to 206,154 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $22.39 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 93244

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Cardiology	127,633	123,741	$22.45	3,691
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology	45,284	43,936	$22.50	932
Interventional Cardiology	22,414	21,651	$22.14	750
Internal Medicine	11,291	10,949	$22.40	344
Nurse Practitioner	1,702	1,672	$18.96	76
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology	1,178	1,154	$23.23	50
Physician Assistant	815	803	$18.94	23
Family Practice	753	741	$21.95	40
Hospitalist	359	353	$22.13	6
Cardiac Surgery	315	301	$22.09	7
Nuclear Medicine	169	169	$22.91	10
Pediatric Medicine	144	140	$21.32	4
Undefined Physician type	91	91	$23.35	2
Vascular Surgery	72	71	$22.57	1
Interventional Radiology	70	69	$21.67	2

93244 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	17,685	$23.80	$17.05	485
Florida	15,423	$22.15	$17.02	396
New York	14,812	$24.47	$17.14	434
Texas	12,380	$21.53	$17.08	343
Pennsylvania	11,977	$21.85	$16.95	329
Illinois	9,185	$22.85	$17.05	219
North Carolina	8,226	$21.74	$17.04	224
Virginia	7,309	$22.83	$17.17	250
Maryland	7,043	$22.62	$17.06	157
New Jersey	6,616	$23.40	$17.28	235
Tennessee	5,827	$21.45	$17.12	143
Massachusetts	5,808	$23.33	$17.02	152
Washington	5,366	$23.03	$16.71	158
Ohio	5,249	$21.83	$17.09	148
Arkansas	4,963	$20.97	$17.22	121
Michigan	4,802	$22.33	$16.82	155
Indiana	4,627	$21.33	$16.87	149
Minnesota	4,226	$21.93	$17.01	90
Missouri	3,637	$21.73	$16.80	114
Wisconsin	3,541	$21.51	$16.98	110
South Carolina	3,505	$21.51	$17.01	110
Iowa	3,352	$21.34	$17.05	77
Louisiana	3,273	$20.69	$17.21	87
Georgia	3,253	$21.82	$17.36	92
Colorado	3,195	$22.58	$16.93	100
Arizona	3,163	$21.71	$16.66	103
Kansas	2,823	$21.40	$16.40	63
Alabama	2,811	$20.76	$17.19	85
Oklahoma	2,724	$21.33	$17.06	67
Kentucky	2,415	$21.91	$17.03	86
Oregon	2,080	$22.42	$16.61	74
West Virginia	2,072	$22.09	$16.78	42
Utah	2,015	$21.78	$16.95	53
Connecticut	1,877	$23.53	$17.14	74
Nebraska	1,854	$21.12	$17.12	35
Montana	1,705	$22.26	$16.82	37
New Hampshire	1,652	$22.56	$16.94	49
Maine	1,421	$22.78	$16.86	53
Mississippi	1,320	$21.32	$17.22	47
Nevada	1,156	$22.24	$16.98	26
New Mexico	1,075	$21.63	$17.13	26
North Dakota	886	$21.91	$16.97	16
Delaware	775	$21.87	$16.93	21
Idaho	747	$21.44	$17.04	29
Alaska	740	$29.73	$16.99	23
South Dakota	566	$21.90	$16.90	23
District of Columbia	459	$23.27	$17.15	13
Rhode Island	242	$22.93	$16.98	10
Hawaii	238	$22.58	$16.87	8
Vermont	227	$21.75	$16.40	9
Wyoming	206	$22.09	$17.56	2
U.S. Virgin Islands	79	$22.07	$17.25	1

Related codes

93296Evaluation of single$21.59
93294Evaluation of single$28.57
93298Evaluation of cardiac rhythm monitor system$76.45
93297Evaluation of implantable heart and blood vessel monitoring system$45.47
93280Programming of dual lead pacemaker system$61.84
93295Evaluation of single$35.37
93229Electrocardiogram (ecg) up to 30 days continuous$1018.21
93247Heart rhythm analysis and report of continous external ekg over 8-15 d$299.31
93248Heart rhythm review and interpretation of continous external ekg over$24.98
93228Electrocardiogram (ecg) up to 30 days continuous$24.32
93243Heart rhythm analysis and report of continous external ekg over more t$279.98
93284Programming of multiple lead implantable defibrillator system$85.19

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.