How much does Medicare pay for CPT 93655?

Medicare allowed an average of $294.16 per service and paid $234.97 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $1395.63, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 93655?

Insertion of catheters and destruction of tissue to treat abnormal heart rhythm. It was billed 53,275 times to 43,094 Medicare beneficiaries by 1,433 providers in 2024.

Does 93655 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $281.51 in an office setting and $294.17 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 93655 most?

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, with 43,476 services from 1,143 clinicians. Next are Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Interventional Cardiology.

CPT 93655

Insertion of catheters and destruction of tissue to treat abnormal heart rhythm

$294.16Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 53,275 services

Providers submitted

$1395.63

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$294.16

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$234.97

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $1395.63 for this code and Medicare allowed $294.16 — 4.7× 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 $234.97 (80%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $281.51
Hospital / facility: $294.17

The facility rate is higher for this code, which is unusual and generally means the service depends on equipment or staffing a hospital carries. 42 services were billed in an office setting and 53,233 in a facility.

Services: 53,275
Beneficiaries: 43,094
Providers billing it: 1,433
Total allowed: $15,671,374

What Medicare pays for CPT 93655

Across 53,275 services billed by 1,433 providers to 43,094 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $294.16 per service. That is 1.2 services per beneficiary, so this is a code patients typically receive more than once. 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 93655

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology	43,476	35,083	$294.17	1,143
Cardiology	8,241	6,763	$295.97	237
Internal Medicine	1,294	1,038	$290.82	44
Interventional Cardiology	73	62	$282.80	3
Critical Care (Intensivists)	63	48	$283.98	1
Hospitalist	57	47	$274.87	2
Physician Assistant	32	22	$38.89	1
Family Practice	21	14	$284.23	1
Undefined Physician type	18	17	$273.36	1

93655 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	6,982	$292.21	$225.52	118
Florida	4,748	$313.11	$233.05	120
Texas	4,725	$291.49	$233.21	111
New York	2,959	$344.32	$232.95	75
Virginia	2,358	$292.36	$232.95	61
South Carolina	2,252	$282.42	$232.92	35
Illinois	2,054	$320.19	$233.13	70
North Carolina	1,823	$275.15	$233.09	50
Pennsylvania	1,751	$293.42	$233.11	60
Arizona	1,736	$284.94	$233.20	48
Tennessee	1,677	$268.71	$233.64	42
Massachusetts	1,289	$297.05	$228.25	44
Indiana	1,263	$268.05	$233.35	46
Ohio	1,249	$290.04	$232.89	47
Georgia	1,213	$293.29	$233.38	39
Alabama	1,131	$269.25	$233.17	29
Colorado	1,022	$293.81	$233.28	29
Washington	1,008	$294.29	$233.54	29
New Jersey	985	$318.58	$232.94	36
Kansas	919	$274.32	$233.12	19
Minnesota	871	$271.55	$233.18	29
Michigan	799	$307.23	$231.96	30
Oklahoma	750	$275.28	$232.65	17
Arkansas	717	$267.73	$233.68	12
Missouri	683	$285.86	$232.95	23
Utah	610	$284.15	$233.30	14
Maryland	574	$312.47	$233.03	24
Iowa	458	$267.07	$232.79	12
Wisconsin	442	$263.69	$231.88	20
Louisiana	438	$286.82	$233.26	17
Kentucky	415	$286.62	$233.58	14
Nevada	357	$283.00	$234.02	11
Nebraska	343	$258.40	$232.91	10
New Mexico	335	$290.17	$233.28	7
Mississippi	326	$276.18	$233.80	8
Oregon	308	$285.99	$233.41	15
Alaska	281	$372.21	$233.28	4
Montana	272	$291.85	$231.79	8
Idaho	226	$265.36	$232.68	7
Connecticut	207	$314.62	$232.82	11
District of Columbia	160	$303.60	$232.91	5
New Hampshire	151	$294.28	$232.92	7
Rhode Island	135	$297.06	$233.38	6
Maine	117	$289.27	$232.82	6
West Virginia	61	$296.45	$233.02	3
South Dakota	42	$270.97	$232.94	2
Delaware	30	$291.90	$232.18	2
Vermont	23	$288.83	$233.24	1

Related codes

93656Comprehensive electrophysiologic evaluation$911.22
93657Destruction of tissue of upper heart chamber through tube to treat abn$297.38
93623Programming of heart rhythm stimulation after drug infusion$65.91
93662Ultrasound evaluation of heart blood vessel$67.91
93653Comprehensive electrophysiologic evaluation$804.30
93622Insertion of catheters for recording and pacing of left lower heart ch$163.00
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.