How much does Medicare pay for CPT 93922?

Medicare allowed an average of $54.80 per service and paid $41.38 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $203.51, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 93922?

Ultrasound study of arm and leg arteries. It was billed 539,016 times to 475,602 Medicare beneficiaries by 8,154 providers in 2024.

Does 93922 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $70.18 in an office setting and $11.44 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 93922 most?

Vascular Surgery, with 199,047 services from 1,946 clinicians. Next are Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Diagnostic Radiology.

CPT 93922

Ultrasound study of arm and leg arteries

$54.80Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 539,016 services

Providers submitted

$203.51

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$54.80

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$41.38

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $203.51 for this code and Medicare allowed $54.80 — 3.7× 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 $41.38 (76%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $70.18
Hospital / facility: $11.44

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. 397,818 services were billed in an office setting and 141,198 in a facility.

Services: 539,016
Beneficiaries: 475,602
Providers billing it: 8,154
Total allowed: $29,538,077

What Medicare pays for CPT 93922

Across 539,016 services billed by 8,154 providers to 475,602 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $54.80 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 93922

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Vascular Surgery	199,047	170,307	$43.68	1,946
Cardiology	61,671	56,603	$61.13	1,089
Internal Medicine	48,629	42,200	$78.11	685
Diagnostic Radiology	46,516	44,108	$27.64	1,349
Podiatry	41,385	38,835	$80.22	697
Family Practice	24,178	21,012	$79.58	408
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	21,957	18,023	$70.35	166
General Surgery	19,582	17,052	$45.63	248
Nurse Practitioner	16,058	13,169	$65.38	353
Interventional Cardiology	15,245	14,368	$48.58	356
Interventional Radiology	14,656	13,606	$35.40	301
Physician Assistant	4,441	4,051	$63.73	128
Neurology	3,641	3,236	$76.70	51
Endocrinology	3,276	2,886	$83.35	51
General Practice	2,276	2,050	$68.13	37

93922 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	71,071	$73.68	$48.61	751
Texas	46,379	$63.51	$49.51	821
New York	37,027	$77.28	$51.39	480
Maryland	22,749	$66.49	$45.98	248
North Carolina	22,317	$47.87	$38.52	307
Pennsylvania	18,736	$34.40	$25.89	306
New Jersey	18,640	$76.88	$51.42	310
Virginia	18,264	$46.65	$34.35	257
Florida	18,145	$66.83	$50.66	358
Georgia	17,396	$59.99	$46.80	285
Tennessee	17,125	$52.87	$44.58	235
Illinois	17,085	$39.37	$28.46	292
Michigan	16,672	$45.46	$34.84	291
Arizona	15,667	$66.76	$51.48	299
South Carolina	15,355	$39.24	$31.64	185
Ohio	13,946	$25.37	$19.76	257
Missouri	10,172	$32.57	$25.59	183
Washington	9,050	$52.24	$36.92	138
Massachusetts	8,906	$36.71	$26.48	117
Nevada	8,002	$70.90	$55.90	90
Kentucky	7,783	$36.42	$29.55	105
Wisconsin	7,726	$25.40	$19.63	137
Louisiana	7,474	$49.80	$40.85	156
Oklahoma	7,450	$56.74	$44.85	114
Alabama	7,156	$50.57	$44.35	110
Indiana	6,841	$37.25	$29.16	135
Mississippi	6,523	$49.49	$43.13	114
Arkansas	5,692	$33.40	$28.30	102
Oregon	4,958	$33.44	$24.88	86
Iowa	4,870	$29.79	$23.96	70
South Dakota	4,495	$31.86	$24.80	39
Kansas	4,284	$39.93	$32.94	53
Minnesota	3,986	$24.71	$18.20	100
Colorado	3,818	$56.98	$41.33	69
Nebraska	3,419	$21.45	$17.48	42
West Virginia	3,149	$19.25	$14.55	46
Connecticut	2,663	$65.50	$44.89	58
Utah	2,652	$54.15	$42.80	64
Hawaii	2,515	$72.58	$51.11	29
Delaware	2,507	$40.68	$30.59	41
New Hampshire	2,080	$14.29	$10.11	34
Idaho	1,937	$18.29	$13.84	37
Rhode Island	1,688	$50.85	$37.15	19
Montana	1,600	$42.03	$31.52	32
North Dakota	1,576	$15.69	$11.66	24
New Mexico	1,271	$52.99	$41.72	30
Alaska	1,241	$47.85	$31.67	17
Maine	1,196	$27.37	$19.96	30
District of Columbia	1,108	$60.73	$38.21	19
Vermont	969	$14.80	$10.59	8
U.S. Virgin Islands	886	$74.53	$52.27	2
Wyoming	267	$47.53	$35.68	13
Guam	254	$86.93	$57.68	2
Puerto Rico	156	$77.42	$58.31	5
XX	107	$90.28	$61.36	1
AA	15	$11.27	$8.27	1

Related codes

93971Ultrasound study of one arm or leg veins$51.34
93970Ultrasound study of arm or leg veins$96.22
93925Ultrasound of leg arteries or artery grafts$179.07
93923Complete ultrasound study of arm and leg arteries$95.57
93978Complete ultrasound of aorta$144.08
93926Ultrasound of one leg arteries or artery grafts$73.51
93975Complete ultrasound of abdomen and pelvis artery and vein blood flow$173.24
93976Ultrasound of abdomen and pelvis artery and vein blood flow$86.57
93990Ultrasound of hemodialysis access$103.15
93979Ultrasound of aorta$89.63
93924Ultrasound of leg arteries at rest and after exercise$138.34
93931Ultrasound of one arm arteries or artery grafts$69.61

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.