How much does Medicare pay for CPT 93352?

Medicare allowed an average of $34.60 per service and paid $26.62 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $141.13, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 93352?

Injection of x-ray contrast during ultrasound of heart. It was billed 13,295 times to 13,279 Medicare beneficiaries by 542 providers in 2024.

Does 93352 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $35.58 in an office setting and $34.16 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 93352 most?

Cardiology, with 10,844 services from 438 clinicians. Next are Interventional Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology.

CPT 93352

Injection of x-ray contrast during ultrasound of heart

$34.60Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 13,295 services

Providers submitted

$141.13

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$34.60

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$26.62

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $141.13 for this code and Medicare allowed $34.60 — 4.1× 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 $26.62 (77%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $35.58
Hospital / facility: $34.16

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. 4,080 services were billed in an office setting and 9,215 in a facility.

Services: 13,295
Beneficiaries: 13,279
Providers billing it: 542
Total allowed: $460,007

What Medicare pays for CPT 93352

Across 13,295 services billed by 542 providers to 13,279 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $34.60 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 93352

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Cardiology	10,844	10,830	$34.63	438
Interventional Cardiology	1,081	1,080	$33.49	47
Internal Medicine	864	863	$34.59	34
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology	309	309	$37.81	14
Hospitalist	36	36	$31.98	1
Family Practice	35	35	$33.00	1
Nuclear Medicine	34	34	$35.28	2
Critical Care (Intensivists)	27	27	$37.45	2
Nurse Practitioner	26	26	$28.30	1
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	25	25	$34.55	1
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology	14	14	$36.70	1

93352 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
Illinois	2,910	$35.39	$25.70	106
California	2,053	$39.49	$26.63	64
Pennsylvania	989	$32.01	$26.21	49
Kentucky	820	$31.58	$26.42	23
Texas	611	$32.71	$25.75	24
Missouri	594	$32.65	$26.15	22
New York	554	$34.36	$25.85	28
Washington	510	$38.15	$26.35	20
Wisconsin	451	$31.91	$25.64	24
Minnesota	368	$34.49	$25.69	20
North Carolina	366	$32.89	$26.10	23
Arkansas	330	$29.79	$26.70	8
Montana	311	$33.76	$25.56	8
Oklahoma	229	$31.61	$26.81	7
Colorado	221	$34.93	$26.24	12
Arizona	216	$32.31	$26.31	10
Ohio	182	$31.74	$26.07	11
New Hampshire	170	$35.55	$25.62	10
Oregon	164	$37.22	$25.87	9
Indiana	158	$30.85	$25.70	8
Florida	145	$32.79	$25.74	5
Massachusetts	141	$37.97	$26.04	10
Maine	114	$33.11	$25.79	7
New Jersey	108	$35.93	$26.69	5
North Dakota	106	$33.55	$25.39	6
Michigan	99	$32.46	$27.23	5
Georgia	88	$29.99	$27.32	2
Idaho	39	$30.60	$26.20	2
Kansas	39	$31.11	$27.06	2
Tennessee	35	$32.11	$26.33	2
Utah	29	$32.22	$26.28	2
Virginia	29	$33.43	$23.41	2
Connecticut	27	$33.66	$25.45	2
Alabama	26	$32.16	$27.10	1
West Virginia	25	$28.89	$27.03	1
South Carolina	24	$32.56	$27.38	1
Iowa	14	$31.24	$24.67	1

Related codes

93306Ultrasound of heart$112.91
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

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.