How Much Does a Stress Echocardiogram Cost in Tennessee?
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$626Hospital outpatient total2026 Medicare, physician + facilityUnder 2026 Medicare rates, a stress echocardiogram costs about $626 in total at a hospital outpatient department, counting both the physician and the facility (national rates). Outside a hospital, at an independent imaging center, lab or office, Medicare's full rate in Tennessee averages $172.
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Tennessee Medicare physician rate (2026)
-7.2% vs nationalSingle statewide locality.
What the whole procedure costs
The office rate above is what an imaging center, lab or office is paid for the whole test. In a hospital, the facility bills its own fee and the physician bills only the reading. These are 2026 national Medicare amounts.
This is Medicare's separate payment to the facility on top of the physician's fee. For a test like this the physician in a hospital bills only the reading (the professional component); outside a hospital one global fee covers the whole test, shown in the office rate above. Medicare allowed amounts are not what an uninsured patient is charged, and not a quote. Private plans typically allow more.
Your ZIP in Tennessee
Enter a ZIP code for your part of Tennessee, whether Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, the Tri-Cities, or the rural plateau and delta counties.
What stress echocardiogram costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Tennessee 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 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. In Tennessee the office and hospital physician lines for this CPT differ by $106.93.
National vs Tennessee
Where Tennessee ranks for this CPT
Stress Echocardiogram and how Tennessee is priced
Tennessee's Medicare rates come from one statewide locality with below-average geographic indices, so Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga all publish the same approved amounts despite being four distinct metro markets. The uniform locality stretches across a state that spans two time zones and several regional economies. Nashville's boom has raised local practice costs faster than the statewide averages that feed the indices. For patients, the fee schedule is identical statewide; the markets around it are anything but.
Nashville is the corporate capital of American hospital operations, home to major for-profit chains, alongside a prominent academic medical center, while Memphis anchors care for the Mid-South including parts of Mississippi and Arkansas. Knoxville and Chattanooga serve East Tennessee, and the rural Cumberland Plateau and West Tennessee counties have seen multiple hospital closures. Cross-border patient flows into Tennessee's metros are heavy from every neighboring state.
This procedure: A stress echocardiogram combines a heart ultrasound with exercise: images are taken at rest, you walk or run on a treadmill to a target heart rate, then images are rapidly repeated to see whether any heart wall moves poorly under stress, a sign of blocked arteries. It answers many of the same questions as a nuclear stress test without radiation. Plan on about an hour, wear exercise clothes, and expect to be pushed close to your maximum effort.
What Is Stress Echocardiogram?
A stress echocardiogram combines a heart ultrasound with exercise: images are taken at rest, you walk or run on a treadmill to a target heart rate, then images are rapidly repeated to see whether any heart wall moves poorly under stress, a sign of blocked arteries. It answers many of the same questions as a nuclear stress test without radiation. Plan on about an hour, wear exercise clothes, and expect to be pushed close to your maximum effort.
What Affects the Cost
- –The complete service stacks several billed parts: the imaging, the treadmill stress supervision, and the physician interpretations.
- –Patients who cannot exercise need a dobutamine infusion instead, adding drug and administration charges.
- –Office-based cardiology labs undercut hospital outpatient pricing for the identical test.
- –It is generally cheaper than a nuclear stress test because there is no radioactive tracer, an argument for it when either test would do.
- –Inconclusive results can cascade to nuclear imaging, CT angiography, or catheterization, each a fresh cost tier.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.Is stress echo or a nuclear test better for my situation, and what does each cost me?
- 2.Has prior authorization been approved for this specific test?
- 3.Will I exercise, or will I need the dobutamine version, and what does the drug add?
- 4.Is this in an office lab or a hospital department, and what is the price at each?
- 5.If the result is unclear, what is the next test and its cost?
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Stress Echocardiogram in Tennessee: questions
Under 2026 Medicare rates, a stress echocardiogram costs about $626 in total at a hospital outpatient department, counting both the physician and the facility (national rates). Outside a hospital, at an independent imaging center, lab or office, Medicare's full rate in Tennessee averages $172. Tennessee is a single Medicare locality, so the physician rate is the same statewide.
Not on the physician fee schedule. Tennessee 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 $34 for the office physician line or $13 for the hospital physician line in Tennessee. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
It depends on where the test is done. At an independent imaging center, lab or office, $171.95 is Medicare's full rate in Tennessee, covering the test and the reading. In a hospital outpatient department the physician is paid only for the reading (about $65.02) and the hospital is paid separately, which brings the national total to about $626. Tennessee ranks #8 of 51 states on the non-hospital rate (7% below the national office rate of $185.37).