Billing code 93288: Pacemaker interrogationMedicare rate & RVUs

Medicare pays $55.45 for 93288 nationally in the office. Local office rates run $49.38–$74.69.

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

What 93288 covers

This service covers an in-person check of an implanted pacemaker, including a leadless pacemaker. Device-clinic staff or a clinician retrieves and reviews device information such as battery status, lead measurements when present, stored events, and rhythm data; a physician or other qualified health care professional analyzes the findings and reports them. It is commonly performed in a cardiology or electrophysiology office or device clinic during a scheduled device check or evaluation of a reported device concern.

Report the interrogation service for the in-person evaluation, rather than a programming evaluation such as 93279–93281 when the service involves programming. Documentation should identify the device and support the interrogation, data review, and clinician report. The service has professional and technical components: modifier 26 identifies the interpretation, modifier TC identifies equipment and staff, and an unmodified claim represents the global service. When multiple cardiovascular diagnostic procedures are performed, the multiple-procedure reduction applies to the technical component.

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 93288 pays more and less

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

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93288 rates by state

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How the 93288 rate is calculated

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Payment rules and modifiers for 93288

The CMS indicators that decide how 93288 is paid alongside other services.

What modifiers do to the payment

When to use modifier 26

93288 compared with similar codes

How to choose

93279Pacemaker programming

Use 93288 for in-person interrogation and review of a pacemaker. Use 93279 when the service is a programming evaluation for a single-lead pacemaker.

93280Pacemaker programming check

93288 reports interrogation; 93280 reports programming evaluation for a dual-lead pacemaker.

93289Device interrogation

93288 is for pacemaker interrogation, including leadless pacemakers. 93289 is for in-person interrogation of an implantable defibrillator.

93294Remote pacemaker check

Both concern pacemaker interrogation, but 93288 is performed in person and 93294 reports remote interrogation.

Codes related to 93288

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.

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

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