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CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01

93316 TEE probe placement Medicare reimbursement rates in Washington

Reports transesophageal probe placement for congenital heart evaluation when the clinician placing the probe does not perform the imaging interpretation and report. Compare 93316 office and facility rates across CMS payment localities in Washington.

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 93316 in Washington?

Washington 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

No supported rate

Facility setting

$24.40–$25.74

2 of 2 localities have a supported rate.

Lowest: Rest Of Washington

Highest: Seattle (King Cnty)

A spread of $1.34 per service.

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.

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Echocardiography

About 93316: Congenital TEE probe placement only

Reports transesophageal probe placement for congenital heart evaluation when the clinician placing the probe does not perform the imaging interpretation and report.

This code represents the clinician’s work to advance and position a transesophageal echocardiography probe for evaluation of congenital cardiac anatomy. It is used when probe placement is performed as a distinct service, often in a procedural or operating-room setting, while image acquisition and the interpretation and report are handled separately. The service concerns positioning the probe, not the diagnostic findings from the resulting study.

Report it only when documentation supports probe placement for a congenital cardiac evaluation and identifies the clinician who performed that work. When one clinician performs the complete congenital TEE service, including placement, imaging, interpretation, and reporting, the complete-service code 93315 is the better fit. If another clinician performs the imaging and interpretation/report, code 93317 describes that separate portion. CMS fee-schedule payment for 93316 reflects the probe-placement service; the code’s payment facts list no special payment rule.

Where the value comes from

  • Work RVU0.59 · 81%
  • Practice expense (office) RVU0.09 · 12%
  • Malpractice RVU0.05 · 7%

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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.

93316 compared with similar codes

Office rates for Washington, from the same CMS release.

93315

Echo transesophageal

No office rate

93315 covers the complete congenital TEE service. Use 93316 when the documented service is probe placement alone.

93317

Echo transesophageal

No office rate

93317 covers image acquisition, interpretation, and reporting for congenital TEE; 93316 covers probe placement.

93313

TEE probe placement

Probe placement only

No office rate

93313 is probe placement alone for TEE outside the congenital cardiac code pathway. For congenital cardiac evaluation, use 93316.

93318

Echo transesophageal intraop

No office rate

93318 describes intraoperative TEE monitoring for ongoing assessment, not probe placement alone for a congenital diagnostic study.

Compare 93316 by payment locality

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2 of 2 payment localities

Office and facility base rates · shared scale starting at $0

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93316 billing questions

When should 93316 be used instead of 93315?

Use 93316 for probe placement alone in a congenital cardiac evaluation. When the same clinician also acquires the images and provides the interpretation and report, use the complete-service code 93315.

Can 93316 be reported with 93317?

They represent separate portions of a congenital TEE when the work is divided: 93316 for probe placement and 93317 for image acquisition, interpretation, and report. Documentation should support each clinician’s work.

How does 93316 differ from 93313?

Both describe probe placement alone, but 93316 is for congenital cardiac evaluations. Code 93313 is the corresponding probe-placement code for other TEE examinations.

What documentation supports 93316?

Document the congenital cardiac indication and the clinician’s probe-placement service. The record should distinguish that work from image acquisition and the interpretation and report.

Does 93316 include the echocardiographic interpretation?

No. It represents probe placement only; image acquisition and interpretation with a report are described separately by 93317 for congenital cardiac evaluations.

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.

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