# CPT 93015

> Medicare paid $77.26 for CPT 93015 in the office (non-facility) setting and $77.26 in a facility under the Q4 2015 Physician Fee Schedule, effective October 2015. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This is a 0.5% increase from the previous quarter.

## What it is

A supervised exercise (or pharmacologic) stress test that records the heart’s response to exertion, including the supervision, continuous tracing, and interpretation as one complete service. It evaluates chest pain and suspected coronary disease.

## Selected release

- Release: Q4 2015 (2015 D)
- Effective: October 1 – December 31, 2015
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $77.26
- Facility national allowed amount: $77.26
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.75
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 1.36
- Facility practice expense RVU: 1.36
- Malpractice RVU: 0.04
- Conversion factor: 35.9335
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q4 2015)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu15d.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU15_OCT05_V1001.csv, row 14,978
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/93015/2015/D
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/93015/2015/D
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:06:14+00:00