HCPCS code R0076: ECG transport, per patient2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Missouri

CMS doesn’t publish an office rate for R0076 in Missouri.

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

What R0076 covers

R0076 identifies transportation of portable electrocardiogram equipment to a facility or other location for an individual patient. The service is the equipment's transport, not the ECG tracing or its interpretation. The location may be a facility or another place where patient care is provided. The code's per-patient basis identifies the transport unit; it is not a mileage measure or a count of patients transported together. It is distinct from coding the ECG test itself.

For Medicare, R0076 has physician fee schedule status B: Medicare never pays it separately, and its payment is included in payment for other services. CMS assigns contractor pricing under the physician fee schedule, and special Medicare coverage instructions apply. Report the service per patient transported.

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 R0076 pays more and less in Missouri

The same RVUs, adjusted for each area’s costs. Open a locality for its calculation, history and nearby areas.

How the R0076 rate is calculated

Each of R0076’s three RVUs is multiplied by a geographic index (GPCI) for the payment locality, added up, and multiplied by the conversion factor. Drag the indexes or enter a ZIP to see what moves the rate.

Payment rules and modifiers for R0076

R0076 has no global surgery period, no multiple-procedure, bilateral or assistant-at-surgery adjustment, and no professional/technical split. What changes the payment is where the service happens: the place of service on the claim decides whether Medicare pays the office or the facility rate.

R0076 compared with similar codes

How to choose

R0070X-ray transportOne patient per trip

R0070 describes transportation of portable X-ray equipment. R0076 describes transportation of portable ECG equipment.

R0075Portable X-ray transportMultiple patients

R0075 describes portable X-ray transportation involving multiple patients; R0076 describes portable ECG transportation per patient.

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.

CMS RVU26D · effective Oct 1, 2026 through the day before Jan 1, 2027

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