ECG/EKG Cost in Vermont
Electrocardiogram complete
$14.94Vermont 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
- ✓A word-for-word script for asking for a good-faith estimate
- ✓A private link you can reopen and share
- ✓Everything in the Premium report
- ✓15 nearby hospitals instead of five
- ✓Filled good-faith-estimate request letter
- ✓Bill-negotiation letter
- ✓Printable PDF download
Vermont Medicare physician rate (2026)
-2.7% vs nationalSingle statewide locality.
Your ZIP in Vermont
Enter a ZIP code for your part of Vermont, whether Burlington and Chittenden County, Montpelier, Rutland, Brattleboro, or the Northeast Kingdom.
What ecg/ekg costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Vermont 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 Vermont
Where Vermont ranks for this CPT
ECG/EKG and how Vermont is priced
Vermont, with the second-smallest population in the country, is priced as one statewide locality with indices close to the national average, higher than northern New England's rural profile might suggest. Burlington and the smallest Northeast Kingdom towns share the same Medicare-approved amounts. No subdivision has ever been warranted for a state without a single large metro. The fee schedule's simplicity contrasts with the real-world challenge of delivering specialty care across the Green Mountains.
The state's academic medical center in Burlington handles most complex care and also serves northern New York across Lake Champlain, while community hospitals cover the rest of the state with limited procedure menus. Vermonters in the south and east regularly use Dartmouth-area or Boston providers over the border. An aging population, among the oldest in the nation, keeps Medicare central to the state's health economy.
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 Vermont: questions
Vermont is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 93000 is $14.94 in an office and $14.94 in a hospital, statewide. A ZIP lookup still confirms the locality mapping.
Not on the physician fee schedule. Vermont 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 $3 for the office physician line or $3 for the hospital physician line in Vermont. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $14.94 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 93000. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. Vermont ranks #23 of 51 states on this physician line (3% below the national office rate of $15.36).