{
    "code": "93229",
    "coding_system": "CPT",
    "canonical_url": "https://localishealth.com/cpt/93229/2018/A",
    "release_specific_url": "https://localishealth.com/cpt/93229/2018/B",
    "description": "The service side of mobile cardiac telemetry: supplying and fitting the wearable monitor, showing the patient how to use it and mark symptoms, and running a monitoring center that watches the transmitted rhythm around the clock for up to about 30 days. Technicians screen the incoming data, escalate urgent findings straight away, and generate daily summaries and event-triggered reports for the ordering physician. The physician's own review and written interpretation sit under a different code.",
    "answer": {
        "question": "How much did Medicare pay for CPT 93229 in Q2 2018?",
        "text": "Medicare paid $743.39 for CPT 93229 in the office (non-facility) setting and $743.39 in a facility under the Q2 2018 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 2018. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2018, when it increased 2.0%."
    },
    "release": {
        "schedule": "pfs",
        "year": 2018,
        "quarter": "B",
        "label": "Q2 2018",
        "effective": "April 1 – June 30, 2018",
        "revision": 1
    },
    "status": {
        "code": "A",
        "non_facility_payable": true,
        "facility_payable": true
    },
    "national_rates_usd": {
        "office_non_facility": 743.39,
        "facility": 743.39,
        "sequestration_applied": false,
        "gpci": 1
    },
    "rvus": {
        "work": 0,
        "practice_expense_non_facility": 20.59,
        "practice_expense_facility": 20.59,
        "malpractice": 0.06
    },
    "formula": "(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor",
    "conversion_factor": 35.9996,
    "source": {
        "label": "Physician relative value file (Q2 2018)",
        "cms_url": "https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu18b.zip",
        "local_source_url": "https://localishealth.com/sources/physician-fee-schedule/2018/B",
        "file": "PPRRVU18_APR.csv",
        "row": 15529,
        "sha256": "6a692625dad07579d7e9946e9b59265acc1cff8c6ed48d4391949735be04024b"
    },
    "modified_at": "2026-08-04T03:08:19+00:00"
}