CPT 93350: Transthoracic Stress Echocardiography with Rest and Exercise
Medicare pays $129 and commercial payers pay $664 on average nationally for this procedure.
CPT code 93350 describes transthoracic echocardiography performed with imaging at rest and after exercise to evaluate global and ventricular function and assess cardiac causes of chest pain; the service is an exercise (stress) echocardiogram with image review typically performed in an outpatient cardiology or hospital cardiology stress testing setting with physician interpretation of the imaging.
For related coverage guidance, see recent payer policy updates: Cardiac Computed Tomography (CCT)/Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography (CCTA), Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment, Biomarkers for Myocardial Infarction and Chronic Heart Failure.
Customize your policy alerts
Sign up for cpt 93350 policy alerts
Get alerted when payer policies referencing 93350 are released or updated.
Monitor payer policy activity
National Reimbursement Benchmarks
Medicare's mean of $128.60 sits well below BUCA’s average commercial mean of $663.90, indicating a substantial gap between federal reimbursement and the broader commercial market for CPT 93350. This divergence highlights that commercial contracts represented by BUCA payers are paying roughly five times the Medicare mean, with Medicare's median locality payment at $121 and BUCA's median at $677.50.
Dispersion (P75 minus P25) varies notably: Blue Cross Blue Shield has the widest interquartile spread at $229.60 (P75 $1,101.70 minus P25 $878.10), followed by BUCA with $272.00 (P75 $736.60 minus P25 $546.40). UnitedHealth Group and Cigna show moderate spreads of $144.40 and $165.10 respectively, while Aetna is comparatively tight with a spread of $121.50. Medicare’s IQR is $108.50 (P75 $178.50 minus P25 $70.00), indicating relatively low locality dispersion compared with many commercial payers.