$21.85–$22.57
Use 93016 for supervision alone when the complete service is split. Use 93015 when one billing entity furnishes supervision, tracing, and interpretation with a report.
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CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01
93015 Cardiac stress test Medicare reimbursement rates in New Jersey
Report the complete exercise or pharmacologic cardiovascular stress test when one billing entity furnishes supervision, ECG tracing, and interpretation with a report. Compare 93015 office and facility rates across CMS payment localities in New Jersey.
Amounts below use the non-QP conversion factor for participating physicians. These are base physician payments before claim-level adjustments, not patient costs or total hospital charges.
What does Medicare pay for 93015 in New Jersey?
New Jersey has 2 payment localities in this comparison. Use the service location to choose the applicable amount. These are the supported base rates for the 2 payment areas shown below, using the same CMS release.
Office / nonfacility
$78.98–$82.75
2 of 2 localities have a supported rate.
Facility setting
No supported rate
These are locality ranges, not averages or address-specific quotes. A facility-setting amount covers the physician service; it does not include a hospital’s separate bill. Choose a locality below to inspect its calculation, compare other payment areas, or price a percentage of Medicare.
Cardiovascular diagnostics
About 93015: Complete cardiovascular stress test with supervision and report
Report the complete exercise or pharmacologic cardiovascular stress test when one billing entity furnishes supervision, ECG tracing, and interpretation with a report.
This service is a cardiovascular stress test, commonly performed on a treadmill using a graded protocol, on a bicycle ergometer, or with a pharmacologic agent when exercise is unsuitable. ECG activity is recorded during stress and recovery while heart rate, blood pressure, symptoms, and arrhythmias are assessed. A physician or other qualified health care professional supervises the test, and a clinician interprets the results and prepares a report. The complete service is commonly furnished in cardiology offices and outpatient clinics with testing staff and equipment.
Report 93015 when one billing entity furnishes supervision, tracing, and interpretation with a report. It is a global-test-only code; use the separate component codes when entities split the work rather than appending modifier 26 or TC. Documentation should identify the exercise protocol or pharmacologic agent, workload or administered dose as appropriate, heart rate and blood pressure response, symptoms, ECG findings, reason for stopping, and signed interpretation. When multiple eligible cardiovascular diagnostic services are furnished for the same patient on the same date, the CMS multiple procedure reduction affects the technical component of the lower-ranked service or services.
CMS billing rules for 93015
- Professional and technical components
- Global-test-only code: separate codes describe the professional and technical components.
- Multiple procedures
- Cardiovascular diagnostic multiple procedure reduction applies to the technical component.
Where the value comes from
- Work RVU0.73 · 33%
- Practice expense (office) RVU1.43 · 65%
- Malpractice RVU0.04 · 2%
795.4K
Medicare services in 2024 · #169 by national volume
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.
93015 compared with similar codes
Office rates for New Jersey, from the same CMS release.
$14.45–$14.92
93018 covers interpretation and reporting of the stress test alone, such as a clinician reading a hospital test. 93015 covers the complete service furnished by one billing entity.
$252.00–$264.98
93351 includes stress echocardiography and the associated stress-test supervision, ECG monitoring, and interpretation; do not add 93015 for that work. Use 93015 for a complete stress test without bundled echocardiographic imaging, including one performed with separately reported nuclear imaging.
$16.49–$17.21
93000 is a resting 12-lead ECG with interpretation. Baseline and monitoring ECG recordings performed as part of the stress test are included in 93015.
Compare 93015 by payment locality
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2 of 2 payment localities
Northern Nj →
Office / nonfacility
$82.75
Facility
Unavailable
Rest Of New Jersey →
Office / nonfacility
$78.98
Facility
Unavailable
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93015 billing questions
Can modifier 26 or TC be appended to this code?
No. 93015 is a global-test-only code. CMS assigns separate codes for supervision, tracing, and interpretation with report when the work is split.
When should the component codes be used instead?
Use them when different entities furnish parts of the test. For example, a hospital outpatient department may report the tracing while a clinician reports supervision and interpretation using the applicable component codes.
Is the stress portion of a nuclear perfusion study reported with this code?
Yes, when the same billing entity furnishes the complete stress test. Myocardial perfusion imaging is reported separately; use stress-test component codes instead if the stress-test work is split.
Can a resting 12-lead ECG be billed separately on the same day?
Baseline and monitoring ECG recordings that are part of the stress test are included. A distinct, medically necessary resting 12-lead ECG may be reported separately when its separate indication and interpretation are documented.
Is the pharmacologic stress agent included?
The stress-test code describes the testing service, not the drug supply. When separately reportable, the entity supplying an agent such as regadenoson uses its applicable HCPCS code and units based on the administered dose.
How does the multiple procedure reduction affect this code?
When the same patient receives multiple eligible cardiovascular diagnostic services on the same date from the same physician or group, CMS applies the reduction to the technical component of the lower-ranked service or services. The professional component is not reduced under this rule.
Where these rates come from
FeeBase calculates base physician payments from CMS work, practice-expense, and malpractice RVUs, adjusted by each locality’s geographic indices and the applicable conversion factor. Unavailable or separately priced services are labeled rather than assigned a made-up amount.
Source: RVU26D. Effective 2026-10-01 through the day before 2027-01-01.
11,93393000,,Electrocardiogram complete,A,,0.17,0.27,,0.27,NA,0.02,0.46,0.46,4,XXX,0.00,0.00,0.00,6,0,0,0,0,9,,33.4009,01,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
11,93493005,,Electrocardiogram tracing,A,,0.00,0.20,,0.20,NA,0.01,0.21,0.21,3,XXX,0.00,0.00,0.00,6,0,0,0,0,9,,33.4009,01,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
11,93593010,,Electrocardiogram report,A,,0.17,0.07,,0.07,,0.01,0.25,0.25,2,XXX,0.00,0.00,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
11,93693015,,Cv stress test supvj i&r,A,,0.73,1.43,,1.43,NA,0.04,2.20,2.20,4,XXX,0.00,0.00,0.00,6,0,0,0,0,9,,33.4009,02,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
11,93793016,,Cv stress test supvj only,A,,0.44,0.17,,0.17,,0.01,0.62,0.62,2,XXX,0.00,0.00,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,9,,33.4009,02,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
11,93893017,,Cv stress test tracing only,A,,0.00,1.15,,1.15,NA,0.02,1.17,1.17,3,XXX,0.00,0.00,0.00,6,0,0,0,0,9,,33.4009,02,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
11,93993018,,Cv stress test i&r only,A,,0.29,0.11,,0.11,,0.01,0.41,0.41,2,XXX,0.00,0.00,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00