How much does Medicare pay for CPT 93308?

Medicare allowed an average of $29.25 per service and paid $22.56 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $168.43, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 93308?

Ultrasound of heart, follow-up. It was billed 490,430 times to 459,163 Medicare beneficiaries by 12,148 providers in 2024.

Does 93308 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $76.77 in an office setting and $24.20 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 93308 most?

Cardiology, with 337,648 services from 7,587 clinicians. Next are Interventional Cardiology, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine.

CPT 93308

Ultrasound of heart, follow-up

$29.25Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 490,430 services

Providers submitted

$168.43

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$29.25

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$22.56

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $168.43 for this code and Medicare allowed $29.25 — 5.8× 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 $22.56 (77%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $76.77
Hospital / facility: $24.20

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. 47,048 services were billed in an office setting and 443,382 in a facility.

Services: 490,430
Beneficiaries: 459,163
Providers billing it: 12,148
Total allowed: $14,345,078

What Medicare pays for CPT 93308

Across 490,430 services billed by 12,148 providers to 459,163 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $29.25 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 93308

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Cardiology	337,648	315,868	$29.40	7,587
Interventional Cardiology	64,079	58,999	$28.91	1,680
Emergency Medicine	34,843	34,540	$25.03	1,473
Internal Medicine	21,347	19,913	$29.20	516
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology	9,284	8,099	$30.36	223
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology	8,588	8,059	$30.64	249
Critical Care (Intensivists)	2,724	2,462	$26.40	80
General Surgery	2,273	2,245	$26.16	89
Pulmonary Disease	1,724	1,474	$47.66	46
Family Practice	1,474	1,458	$68.30	35
Adult Congenital Heart Disease	811	788	$31.26	18
Nuclear Medicine	783	728	$24.71	15
Hospitalist	760	715	$24.01	20
Diagnostic Radiology	570	554	$40.51	17
Cardiac Surgery	506	478	$23.99	14

93308 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	40,196	$34.52	$23.76	1,015
Florida	38,192	$34.77	$26.81	874
Pennsylvania	27,331	$26.32	$20.36	721
New York	26,674	$35.37	$24.87	646
Ohio	26,321	$25.34	$20.05	590
Texas	22,886	$34.87	$26.99	644
Illinois	22,843	$27.59	$21.10	542
Michigan	16,283	$26.02	$19.90	451
Virginia	16,235	$26.66	$20.23	345
Massachusetts	15,873	$26.52	$19.50	472
Wisconsin	15,035	$28.35	$22.11	264
Georgia	13,834	$28.90	$22.53	387
Washington	13,741	$30.09	$22.23	277
North Carolina	13,405	$30.02	$23.74	379
Minnesota	12,804	$25.43	$19.44	347
Missouri	12,024	$24.71	$19.27	267
Indiana	9,959	$23.61	$18.78	266
Tennessee	9,615	$25.98	$20.83	232
Arizona	9,179	$28.58	$22.10	199
New Jersey	8,990	$29.76	$21.36	283
South Carolina	7,892	$28.76	$23.01	205
Maryland	7,847	$35.91	$26.20	165
Connecticut	7,795	$25.50	$18.90	244
Iowa	6,924	$28.75	$22.81	119
Colorado	6,829	$26.67	$20.28	194
Kentucky	6,495	$25.41	$20.16	179
Arkansas	6,370	$28.32	$23.35	128
Oklahoma	6,082	$26.30	$21.07	150
Oregon	5,595	$25.36	$19.00	147
Kansas	5,013	$25.41	$20.26	123
Nebraska	4,880	$25.40	$20.50	97
New Hampshire	4,815	$24.17	$18.53	91
Mississippi	4,807	$35.29	$29.07	114
Alabama	4,531	$31.94	$25.90	142
South Dakota	4,128	$23.38	$18.20	43
Louisiana	2,995	$35.61	$28.83	101
Maine	2,704	$24.79	$19.10	84
Idaho	2,562	$25.89	$20.80	62
Montana	2,416	$24.01	$18.41	49
West Virginia	2,340	$27.08	$20.55	69
North Dakota	2,306	$23.90	$18.75	35
Nevada	2,108	$23.86	$18.54	65
Delaware	1,956	$27.48	$21.32	55
District of Columbia	1,841	$25.60	$18.63	36
Utah	1,834	$25.95	$19.98	60
New Mexico	1,331	$23.86	$18.69	39
Alaska	1,196	$44.50	$25.55	26
Rhode Island	1,102	$26.31	$19.98	44
Vermont	999	$23.60	$18.40	36
Hawaii	842	$23.93	$18.46	31
Wyoming	284	$43.91	$32.61	12
Puerto Rico	180	$73.05	$57.48	1
Guam	11	$25.51	$17.32	1

Related codes

93306Ultrasound of heart$112.91
93325Ultrasound of heart$5.51
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.