CPT code 93786: Blood pressure monitoring, recording only2026 Medicare rate & RVUs

Medicare pays $23.71 for 93786 nationally in the office. Local office rates run $20.26–$33.89.

Medicare allowed amount for participating (non-QP) physicians, before deductible, coinsurance and claim adjustments. Not a patient’s bill or a hospital charge.

What 93786 covers

Code 93786 covers setting up an ambulatory blood pressure monitor and obtaining the blood pressure recordings while the patient goes about usual activities. A clinician or trained staff member typically fits the cuff and portable recorder in an outpatient setting, then retrieves the device and its recorded data. Monitoring may help evaluate suspected white-coat or masked hypertension or blood pressure outside the clinic.

This is the recording-only technical service, not the scan analysis or physician interpretation. The record should support that the monitor was applied and a recording was obtained. When analysis and interpretation are performed, the corresponding services are reported separately, such as scanning analysis and report with 93788 and physician review and interpretation with 93790. Medicare applies the cardiovascular diagnostic multiple procedure reduction to the technical component when the applicable multiple-procedure circumstances are met.

This summary was written with AI assistance from CMS physician fee schedule data and checked against the CMS billing rules shown here. Rates on this page come directly from CMS files.

Where 93786 pays more and less

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93786 rates by state

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How the 93786 rate is calculated

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Payment rules and modifiers for 93786

The CMS indicators that decide how 93786 is paid alongside other services.

93786 compared with similar codes

How to choose

93784Blood pressure monitoringComplete service

93784 covers the complete monitoring service, including recording, scanning analysis, interpretation, and report. Choose 93786 when only the technical recording portion is performed.

93788Blood pressure monitoringSoftware analysis and report

93788 is for scanning analysis with a report; 93786 is for obtaining the ambulatory blood pressure recording.

93790Blood pressure monitoringPhysician review and report

93790 represents physician review and interpretation with a report. It does not describe applying the monitor and obtaining the recording, which is 93786.

Codes related to 93786

Related codes aren’t interchangeable: bill the code that matches the service performed.

Where these rates come from

FeeBase calculates base physician payments from CMS work, practice-expense and malpractice RVUs, adjusted by each locality’s geographic indexes and the conversion factor. Services without a published rate are labeled, never given a made-up amount. Amounts are Medicare allowed amounts before claim adjustments: not a patient’s bill or a commercial rate.

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