ECG/EKG Cost in Georgia
Electrocardiogram complete
$15.09Georgia physician fee2026 Medicare office rate- ✓Your ZIP's wage-adjusted hospital and surgery centre rates
- ✓Five nearby hospitals by name, with CMS star ratings
- ✓The add-on codes that typically land on the bill
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- ✓Everything in the Premium report
- ✓15 nearby hospitals instead of five
- ✓Filled good-faith-estimate request letter
- ✓Bill-negotiation letter
- ✓Printable PDF download
Georgia Medicare physician rate (2026)
-1.8% vs nationalAverage of 2 localities. Office range $14.52–$15.66.
Your ZIP in Georgia
Look up your ZIP to see whether Atlanta-area or rest-of-state pricing applies, from the metro counties to Savannah, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, and rural south Georgia.
What ecg/ekg costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Georgia moves the bill more than anything else you control.
Rates for your ZIP, 5 named hospitals with CMS ratings, the add-on codes, and the scheduler script.
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What these numbers are
Every figure on this page is a 2026 Medicare allowed amount: the physician line comes from the Physician Fee Schedule adjusted by geographic practice-cost indices, and the facility totals come from the CMS hospital outpatient (OPPS) and ambulatory surgery centre rates. None of them is a hospital chargemaster price, your insurer's contracted rate, or a quote. Anesthesia, pathology, imaging reads and follow-up care are billed under their own codes when they apply, and an inpatient stay is paid a different way again.
National vs Georgia
Where Georgia ranks for this CPT
CPT 93000 by Georgia locality
| Locality | Office |
|---|---|
| atlanta | $15.66 |
| rest of georgia | $14.52 |
PE GPCI ranges from 0.892 to 1.016 in Georgia. That index is why the same CPT is not one price statewide.
ECG/EKG and how Georgia is priced
Georgia divides into an Atlanta metro locality and a rest-of-state locality, so the fee schedule itself recognizes the cost gap between the capital region and the rest of the state. Atlanta's higher wages and rents translate into higher Medicare-approved amounts inside its locality, while Savannah, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, and rural Georgia share the lower rest-of-state pricing. The split is one of the cleaner examples of a two-tier state in the fee schedule. Patients near the locality boundary can see different approved amounts a short drive apart.
Metro Atlanta concentrates the state's academic medicine and most of its subspecialists, drawing referrals from across the Southeast. Outside the metro, south Georgia has seen repeated rural hospital closures, leaving longer trips for even routine procedures in some counties. Augusta and Savannah serve as important secondary hubs, and border residents sometimes cross into Chattanooga, Tallahassee, or Jacksonville for care.
This procedure: A 12-lead electrocardiogram records the heart's electrical activity through ten stickers placed on the chest and limbs, producing the familiar wave tracing in under a minute of recording. It screens for rhythm problems, prior heart attacks, and electrical abnormalities, and takes about five minutes start to finish with no preparation, needles, or radiation. This code covers the complete service: the tracing plus a physician's interpretation and written report.
What Is ECG/EKG?
A 12-lead electrocardiogram records the heart's electrical activity through ten stickers placed on the chest and limbs, producing the familiar wave tracing in under a minute of recording. It screens for rhythm problems, prior heart attacks, and electrical abnormalities, and takes about five minutes start to finish with no preparation, needles, or radiation. This code covers the complete service: the tracing plus a physician's interpretation and written report.
What Affects the Cost
- –Setting matters even for a cheap test: an ER or hospital-based ECG can cost many times an office ECG.
- –Freestanding urgent cares and primary care offices bundle it inexpensively into visits, while hospital outpatient departments attach facility fees.
- –An ECG billed as part of a pre-operative clearance workup adds to that visit's total alongside labs and the exam.
- –Abnormal results commonly trigger an echocardiogram or cardiology consult, each a much larger charge.
- –Some cardiology practices bill the tracing and interpretation as separate components rather than this combined code.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.Why do I need an ECG today, and is it covered given my symptoms or history?
- 2.Is this billed as one combined charge or as separate tracing and interpretation fees?
- 3.What does an ECG cost here versus at my primary care office?
- 4.If it is abnormal, what follow-up tests would you order and at what cost?
- 5.For a routine physical: will my plan pay for a screening ECG, or will this come to me?
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ECG/EKG in Georgia: questions
The 2026 Medicare physician office rate for CPT 93000 averages $15.09 across 2 Georgia localities, from $14.52 in REST OF GEORGIA to $15.66 in ATLANTA. The hospital physician rate averages $15.09. Enter a ZIP for the exact locality.
Yes. CMS splits Georgia into 2 payment localities. For this CPT the office physician fee spans $1.14 from the lowest to highest locality. Look up your ZIP to see whether Atlanta-area or rest-of-state pricing applies, from the metro counties to Savannah, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, and rural south Georgia.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $3 for the office physician line or $3 for the hospital physician line in Georgia. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $15.09 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 93000. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. Georgia ranks #27 of 51 states on this physician line (within 2% of the national office rate of $15.36).