How much does Medicare pay for CPT 93924?

Medicare allowed an average of $138.34 per service and paid $106.75 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $351.89, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 93924?

Ultrasound of leg arteries at rest and after exercise. It was billed 30,531 times to 28,662 Medicare beneficiaries by 625 providers in 2024.

Does 93924 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $155.69 in an office setting and $22.97 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 93924 most?

Vascular Surgery, with 7,268 services from 170 clinicians. Next are Cardiology, Internal Medicine, General Practice.

CPT 93924

Ultrasound of leg arteries at rest and after exercise

$138.34Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 30,531 services

Providers submitted

$351.89

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$138.34

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$106.75

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $351.89 for this code and Medicare allowed $138.34 — 2.5× 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 $106.75 (77%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $155.69
Hospital / facility: $22.97

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. 26,539 services were billed in an office setting and 3,992 in a facility.

Services: 30,531
Beneficiaries: 28,662
Providers billing it: 625
Total allowed: $4,223,659

What Medicare pays for CPT 93924

Across 30,531 services billed by 625 providers to 28,662 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $138.34 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 93924

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Vascular Surgery	7,268	6,569	$111.14	170
Cardiology	6,201	6,067	$138.27	172
Internal Medicine	5,282	4,981	$163.29	52
General Practice	2,385	2,292	$171.72	14
Interventional Cardiology	1,264	1,214	$110.98	58
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	1,117	1,096	$147.54	14
Podiatry	1,052	970	$170.48	9
Diagnostic Radiology	1,046	1,028	$80.71	50
Obstetrics & Gynecology	933	911	$174.14	3
General Surgery	644	599	$117.10	25
Emergency Medicine	632	623	$181.13	3
Nurse Practitioner	577	285	$145.03	4
Family Practice	574	548	$162.00	11
Interventional Radiology	499	462	$67.74	16
Anesthesiology	234	222	$182.89	1

93924 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	11,226	$171.22	$116.51	75
New York	2,454	$166.63	$110.00	40
Arizona	1,954	$138.33	$107.02	34
Texas	1,888	$130.41	$107.47	37
Florida	1,834	$137.31	$103.57	46
New Jersey	1,103	$160.06	$106.24	26
Minnesota	937	$125.84	$90.74	21
Massachusetts	716	$64.48	$44.99	27
Georgia	658	$63.49	$48.62	28
Michigan	580	$114.78	$87.25	22
Ohio	514	$34.31	$24.79	29
Maryland	513	$141.61	$100.05	17
Alabama	494	$114.59	$99.29	22
Pennsylvania	408	$171.42	$115.86	5
Washington	388	$115.75	$77.84	17
Virginia	377	$126.40	$95.73	12
Tennessee	376	$113.75	$99.92	9
Mississippi	365	$85.60	$71.43	11
Wisconsin	352	$44.72	$32.69	18
South Carolina	293	$75.39	$61.81	15
Maine	288	$40.03	$31.96	6
North Dakota	284	$21.99	$16.06	9
Nevada	240	$163.14	$115.37	4
Oklahoma	238	$120.66	$98.97	6
XX	230	$179.72	$121.78	1
Missouri	219	$27.34	$20.43	9
Louisiana	195	$114.28	$98.51	5
Illinois	161	$33.54	$22.85	9
North Carolina	143	$80.24	$75.05	9
Delaware	115	$125.63	$97.63	4
Connecticut	112	$105.06	$73.01	7
Iowa	100	$43.11	$35.25	5
Nebraska	100	$33.08	$24.14	5
Idaho	93	$50.71	$37.41	5
Indiana	90	$44.63	$32.63	5
Alaska	80	$168.57	$111.64	4
South Dakota	76	$58.90	$43.61	3
Montana	67	$52.35	$37.81	2
Kentucky	62	$57.21	$45.57	4
Oregon	54	$46.85	$33.92	3
New Mexico	33	$70.35	$47.12	1
New Hampshire	28	$24.31	$14.98	1
Arkansas	27	$82.43	$65.61	2
West Virginia	25	$31.99	$25.97	2
Rhode Island	16	$130.80	$104.55	1
District of Columbia	14	$153.51	$99.19	1
Utah	11	$135.49	$98.27	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
93922Ultrasound study of arm and leg arteries$54.80
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
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.