# CPT 93325

> Medicare paid $25.78 for CPT 93325 in the office (non-facility) setting and $25.78 in a facility under the Q4 2016 Physician Fee Schedule, effective October 2016. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2016, when it decreased 3.0%.

## What it is

An add-on to a heart ultrasound that paints moving blood onto the gray-scale image in color, with the color indicating which way the blood is travelling and roughly how fast. It makes leaking valves, abnormal jets, and holes between chambers visible at a glance, and it tells the operator exactly where to aim the Doppler beam for precise velocity measurement. It is an overlay on the same scan, not a separate examination.

## Selected release

- Release: Q4 2016 (2016 D)
- Effective: October 1 – December 31, 2016
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $25.78
- Facility national allowed amount: $25.78
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.07
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.65
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.65
- Malpractice RVU: 0.00
- Conversion factor: 35.8043
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q4 2016)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu16d.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU16_V0804.csv, row 15,319
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/93325/2016/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/93325/2016/D
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:07:13+00:00