# CPT 93018

> Medicare paid $14.66 for CPT 93018 in the office (non-facility) setting and $14.66 in a facility under the Q1 2021 Physician Fee Schedule, effective January 2021. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This is a 3.3% decrease from the previous quarter.

## What it is

The reading portion of a cardiac stress test. A physician goes through the ECG tracings recorded at rest, at each stage of exertion, and in recovery, together with the blood pressure and heart rate response, the symptoms reported, and how much work the patient managed, then writes a formal report on whether the pattern suggests the heart muscle is not getting enough blood. Nothing about running or supervising the test itself is included here.

## Selected release

- Release: Q1 2021 (2021 A)
- Effective: January 1 – March 31, 2021
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $14.66
- Facility national allowed amount: $14.66
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.30
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.11
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.11
- Malpractice RVU: 0.01
- Conversion factor: 34.8931
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q1 2021)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu21a-updated-01052021.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU21_JAN.csv, row 16,141
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/93018/2021/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/93018/2021/A
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:10:16+00:00