How much does Medicare pay for CPT 93306?

Medicare allowed an average of $112.91 per service and paid $84.38 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $474.55, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 93306?

Ultrasound of heart with color-depicted blood flow, rate, direction and valve function. It was billed 6,743,227 times to 6,513,354 Medicare beneficiaries by 24,796 providers in 2024.

Does 93306 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $173.45 in an office setting and $66.89 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 93306 most?

Cardiology, with 5,037,971 services from 15,818 clinicians. Next are Interventional Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology.

CPT 93306

Ultrasound of heart with color-depicted blood flow, rate, direction and valve function

$112.91Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 6,743,227 services

Providers submitted

$474.55

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$112.91

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$84.38

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $474.55 for this code and Medicare allowed $112.91 — 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 $84.38 (75%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $173.45
Hospital / facility: $66.89

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. 2,911,695 services were billed in an office setting and 3,831,532 in a facility.

Services: 6,743,227
Beneficiaries: 6,513,354
Providers billing it: 24,796
Total allowed: $761,377,761

What Medicare pays for CPT 93306

Across 6,743,227 services billed by 24,796 providers to 6,513,354 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $112.91 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 93306

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Cardiology	5,037,971	4,874,937	$112.75	15,818
Interventional Cardiology	963,987	930,588	$108.53	3,493
Internal Medicine	356,573	343,151	$114.67	2,511
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology	126,302	121,110	$121.43	771
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology	75,420	73,100	$91.79	342
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	52,002	45,428	$145.44	273
Family Practice	30,099	28,777	$153.60	734
Diagnostic Radiology	18,092	17,499	$134.69	176
Nuclear Medicine	11,271	10,951	$104.67	31
Hospitalist	8,171	7,991	$101.45	44
Nurse Practitioner	7,945	7,695	$151.54	166
Cardiac Surgery	7,353	7,088	$119.98	30
General Practice	6,699	6,114	$184.07	51
Adult Congenital Heart Disease	5,076	4,979	$79.70	23
Interventional Radiology	4,349	3,813	$163.85	15

93306 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	772,421	$146.97	$97.17	2,411
Florida	580,793	$125.73	$94.37	2,248
New York	534,306	$146.01	$96.81	1,995
Texas	478,982	$120.30	$91.20	1,949
Pennsylvania	296,252	$99.13	$71.55	1,154
Illinois	274,130	$97.47	$70.83	921
New Jersey	255,853	$133.04	$89.74	983
North Carolina	191,957	$99.24	$76.33	768
Ohio	191,931	$76.66	$58.03	808
Virginia	183,871	$105.59	$76.69	581
Massachusetts	183,741	$105.10	$71.88	553
Georgia	182,888	$103.01	$78.63	806
Maryland	172,039	$148.47	$103.31	500
Arizona	166,007	$138.57	$104.28	574
Michigan	163,097	$93.74	$69.58	730
Tennessee	142,534	$86.49	$67.58	578
South Carolina	135,672	$102.80	$79.93	453
Indiana	127,772	$72.90	$56.09	483
Missouri	118,749	$75.99	$57.68	416
Washington	110,923	$93.04	$65.34	421
Alabama	100,276	$105.27	$85.04	419
Louisiana	95,591	$117.39	$93.39	389
Oklahoma	91,045	$80.93	$62.17	249
Wisconsin	85,359	$84.57	$63.11	317
Arkansas	84,142	$79.70	$62.63	243
Kentucky	82,716	$80.87	$61.69	339
Minnesota	79,809	$82.33	$58.50	338
Kansas	76,291	$92.37	$72.46	212
Mississippi	71,504	$104.70	$84.49	205
Colorado	68,555	$90.00	$64.23	293
Connecticut	67,788	$109.45	$75.43	330
Nevada	60,806	$120.48	$90.35	254
Oregon	55,570	$85.77	$61.52	224
Iowa	55,241	$83.55	$64.52	158
Nebraska	41,902	$85.77	$67.70	113
New Hampshire	36,276	$69.85	$50.21	123
Utah	33,006	$90.35	$68.97	118
Delaware	32,949	$132.10	$97.35	76
West Virginia	27,093	$81.75	$63.49	109
South Dakota	27,090	$67.92	$50.99	61
New Mexico	26,629	$82.38	$62.53	95
Idaho	22,342	$73.82	$56.06	87
North Dakota	21,177	$70.10	$52.53	58
Maine	20,929	$71.55	$52.29	109
District of Columbia	20,845	$143.68	$95.49	72
Montana	20,247	$82.78	$60.03	65
Rhode Island	17,548	$108.26	$77.54	79
Hawaii	15,315	$119.38	$82.65	64
Alaska	12,553	$139.61	$80.97	45
Vermont	10,486	$70.53	$51.84	27
Wyoming	8,515	$135.80	$99.42	25
Puerto Rico	6,267	$152.34	$110.78	157
Guam	2,369	$107.33	$62.60	4
U.S. Virgin Islands	899	$166.88	$129.95	5
XX	167	$189.98	$131.34	1
AE	12	$66.75	$43.28	1

Related codes

93325Ultrasound of heart$5.51
93308Ultrasound of heart$29.25
93356Heart muscle strain imaging$23.57
93321Ultrasound of heart blood flow$8.00
93312Ultrasound of heart$103.26
93320Ultrasound of heart blood flow$23.77
93351Ultrasound of heart$195.22
93350Ultrasound of heart during rest$81.79
93355Ultrasound of heart$219.51
933193d ultrasound imaging of heart for evaluation of heart structure perfo$23.02
93307Ultrasound of heart$50.44
93352Injection of x-ray contrast during ultrasound of heart$34.60

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.