How much does Medicare pay for CPT 93622?

Medicare allowed an average of $163.00 per service and paid $130.08 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $927.67, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 93622?

Insertion of catheters for recording and pacing of left lower heart chamber rhythm and induction of abnormal rhythm. It was billed 11,402 times to 11,205 Medicare beneficiaries by 259 providers in 2024.

Which specialty bills 93622 most?

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, with 9,419 services from 206 clinicians. Next are Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Hospitalist.

CPT 93622

Insertion of catheters for recording and pacing of left lower heart chamber rhythm and induction of abnormal rhythm

$163.00Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 11,402 services

Providers submitted

$927.67

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$163.00

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$130.08

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $927.67 for this code and Medicare allowed $163.00 — 5.7× 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 $130.08 (80%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Services: 11,402
Beneficiaries: 11,205
Providers billing it: 259
Total allowed: $1,858,526

What Medicare pays for CPT 93622

Across 11,402 services billed by 259 providers to 11,205 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $163.00 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 93622

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology	9,419	9,257	$162.67	206
Cardiology	1,800	1,767	$164.81	48
Internal Medicine	163	162	$161.40	4
Hospitalist	20	19	$168.66	1

93622 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
Florida	1,673	$172.33	$128.17	28
California	1,487	$167.84	$128.25	27
Texas	1,287	$159.46	$128.67	33
New York	875	$188.61	$128.48	17
Arizona	607	$157.98	$128.62	15
Virginia	599	$157.06	$128.30	18
Alabama	460	$149.76	$128.31	10
North Carolina	411	$150.93	$128.57	9
Pennsylvania	397	$160.17	$128.27	14
Arkansas	390	$147.61	$127.45	7
Kansas	370	$152.16	$128.25	9
Oklahoma	369	$149.78	$127.90	4
South Carolina	363	$154.22	$128.33	7
Colorado	332	$162.24	$128.49	10
Kentucky	232	$157.85	$128.08	5
Illinois	216	$174.87	$128.54	8
Missouri	178	$157.08	$128.83	4
Massachusetts	174	$161.28	$128.60	3
Ohio	156	$156.29	$128.60	6
New Jersey	151	$175.39	$128.79	5
Washington	94	$158.35	$129.30	2
Indiana	93	$147.94	$128.30	3
Nebraska	90	$143.47	$128.62	3
Utah	84	$152.09	$128.28	1
Maryland	61	$177.08	$128.45	2
Michigan	52	$174.87	$128.50	1
South Dakota	52	$149.51	$128.34	1
Iowa	39	$146.77	$128.07	1
Connecticut	33	$178.91	$128.02	2
Oregon	23	$153.58	$128.30	1
Tennessee	19	$148.20	$128.44	1
Georgia	19	$165.94	$129.58	1
Nevada	16	$157.50	$127.88	1

Related codes

93656Comprehensive electrophysiologic evaluation$911.22
93657Destruction of tissue of upper heart chamber through tube to treat abn$297.38
93655Insertion of catheters and destruction of tissue to treat abnormal hea$294.16
93623Programming of heart rhythm stimulation after drug infusion$65.91
93662Ultrasound evaluation of heart blood vessel$67.91
93653Comprehensive electrophysiologic evaluation$804.30
93609Insertion of tube in upper and/or lower heart chambers to record and i$269.78
93650Destruction of heart conduction tissue to create heart block$527.25
93660Evaluation of heart function$111.98
93641Evaluation of single or dual chamber pacing cardioverter-defibrillator$156.53
93654Comprehensive electrophysiologic evaluation$954.56
93620Insertion of catheters for recording and pacing of right heart chamber$595.77

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.