How Much Does an Exercise Stress Test Cost in Mississippi?
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$66.49Mississippi physician fee2026 Medicare office rateUnder 2026 Medicare rates, an exercise stress test costs about $66 in Mississippi.
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Mississippi Medicare physician rate (2026)
-9.5% vs nationalSingle statewide locality.
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What exercise stress test costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Mississippi moves the bill more than anything else you control.
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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 center 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 Mississippi
Where Mississippi ranks for this CPT
Exercise Stress Test and how Mississippi is priced
Mississippi operates as one statewide payment locality, and its geographic indices are among the very lowest in the fee schedule, so Medicare-approved amounts here are close to the national floor. Jackson, the Gulf Coast, and the Delta all share identical adjustments. In a state where practice costs and wages run well below national averages, the low locality factors track the underlying economics. The statewide figures on this site therefore apply almost unchanged wherever in Mississippi you are treated.
Jackson is home to the state's academic medical center and functions as the referral point of last resort for much of Mississippi, while the Gulf Coast and cities like Tupelo, Hattiesburg, and Meridian anchor regional care. The Delta faces some of the most serious rural access challenges in the nation, with hospital closures and long distances compounding high rates of chronic illness. Border residents often use Memphis, Mobile, or New Orleans providers.
This procedure: An exercise stress test, also called a treadmill test or exercise ECG, records your heart's electrical activity while you walk on a treadmill or pedal a stationary bike at increasing effort. It is used to look for reduced blood flow to the heart, to check symptoms such as chest pain or breathlessness that come on with exertion, and to judge how much exercise is safe. The appointment takes about an hour including preparation, with around 10 to 15 minutes of actual exercise, and this basic version involves no injections or imaging.
What Is Exercise Stress Test?
An exercise stress test, also called a treadmill test or exercise ECG, records your heart's electrical activity while you walk on a treadmill or pedal a stationary bike at increasing effort. It is used to look for reduced blood flow to the heart, to check symptoms such as chest pain or breathlessness that come on with exertion, and to judge how much exercise is safe. The appointment takes about an hour including preparation, with around 10 to 15 minutes of actual exercise, and this basic version involves no injections or imaging.
What Affects the Cost
- –Adding imaging turns it into a different and more expensive test: a stress echocardiogram bills echo codes on top, and a nuclear stress test adds imaging codes and a radioactive tracer.
- –A cardiology office bills one global fee, while a hospital splits the test into separate supervision, tracing and interpretation codes and adds its own facility payment.
- –If you cannot exercise, a medication is used to stress the heart instead, which usually means an imaging version of the test plus a drug charge.
- –An office visit with the cardiologist on the same day is billed separately.
- –Cash prices vary widely between practices and hospitals, so ask for a written quote before a non-urgent test.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.Is this a plain exercise ECG, or will imaging or a nuclear tracer be added?
- 2.Will the test be done in your office or at a hospital, and does that change what I pay?
- 3.Does my plan need prior authorization for this test?
- 4.Will there be a separate charge for an office visit on the same day?
- 5.Who reads the results, and is that fee included in the quote?
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Exercise Stress Test in Mississippi: questions
Under 2026 Medicare rates, an exercise stress test costs about $66 in Mississippi. Mississippi is a single Medicare locality, so the physician rate is the same statewide.
Not on the physician fee schedule. Mississippi uses one locality, so the Medicare physician rate is the same from one end of the state to the other. What still changes is site of service (office vs hospital) and any facility fee the hospital bills on its own claim.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $13 for the office physician line or $13 for the hospital physician line in Mississippi. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $66.49 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 93015. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. Mississippi ranks #2 of 51 states on this physician line (10% below the national office rate of $73.48).