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CPT 93978 Medicare Fee Schedule 2026

Medicare's 2026 national payment for CPT 93978 is $180.37 in a non-facility setting ($180.37 in a facility), up 389.1% from $36.88 in 2025.

National rate, October 2026

Non-facility: $180.37
Facility: $180.37
vs. 2025: +389.1%
Commercial national avg.: $257.64

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Physician Fee Schedule·93978·National·2026, 2025

Current non-facility rate

$180.37▼73.8%

Facility: $180.37

Recent trend

Code description

Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.

Code	Date	State	Non-Facility Fee	Facility Fee	Description
93978	10/2026	N/A	$180.37	$180.37	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	10/2026	N/A	$142.96	$142.96	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	10/2026	N/A	$37.41	$37.41	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	7/2026	N/A	$37.41	$37.41	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	7/2026	N/A	$180.37	$180.37	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	7/2026	N/A	$142.96	$142.96	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	4/2026	N/A	$142.96	$142.96	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	4/2026	N/A	$180.37	$180.37	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	4/2026	N/A	$37.41	$37.41	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	1/2026	N/A	$37.41	$37.41	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	1/2026	N/A	$142.96	$142.96	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	1/2026	N/A	$180.37	$180.37	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	10/2025	N/A	$36.88	$36.88	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	10/2025	N/A	$174.02	$174.02	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	10/2025	N/A	$137.15	$137.15	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	7/2025	N/A	$36.88	$36.88	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	7/2025	N/A	$174.02	$174.02	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	7/2025	N/A	$137.15	$137.15	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	4/2025	N/A	$174.02	$174.02	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	4/2025	N/A	$137.15	$137.15	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	4/2025	N/A	$36.88	$36.88	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	1/2025	N/A	$36.88	$36.88	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	1/2025	N/A	$137.15	$137.15	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.
93978	1/2025	N/A	$174.02	$174.02	Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.

93978 national rate by year

Each row is the latest CMS file published that year. Change is against the year before.

CMS file	Non-facility	Facility	Change
October 2026	$180.37	$180.37	+389.1%
October 2025	$36.88	$36.88	-1.1%
March 2024	$37.28	$37.28	-74.4%
January 2023	$145.38	$145.38	-2.8%
July 2022	$149.50	$149.50	-

This is the national amount before geographic adjustment. Medicare multiplies each relative value unit by its locality's geographic practice cost index, so a practice's own allowed amount can be higher or lower; pick a state above to see its localities. The facility amount applies when the service is performed in a hospital or other facility setting.

93978: Medicare vs. commercial national average

The commercial national average for 93978, the mean of what BCBS, UnitedHealthcare, Aetna and Cigna publish nationwide, is $257.64, 143% of Medicare's $180.37.

BCBS $211.38
UnitedHealthcare $258.69
Aetna $257.38
Cigna $303.10

A national average, not a local rate: each payer's figure averages the unmodified, in-network professional rates it publishes for 93978 across the country in its transparency files. Contracted rates vary widely by market, provider and plan. Medicare's figure is its national non-facility amount before geographic adjustment.

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Medicaid comparison

See what state Medicaid programs pay for 93978

50 state Medicaid agencies publish their own physician fee schedule. The 93978 page shows real published rates for several of them free, with effective dates and official sources.

17,674 codes and 974,327 published rates, taken from the files the state agencies publish themselves.

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$32.07

93971Ultrasound Of Arm Or Leg Vein, Ultrasound To Determine If Blood Flow Is Adequate And To Identify Blockages In The Veins Of One Leg Or Arm Or Sections Of Both Legs Or Arms.

$116.24

93975Ultrasound Abdominal Vessels, An Ultrasound (Sound Wave Pictures) To Find Out If Blood Flows Well Through The Arteries Or Veins In The Abdomen (And Their Branches Into The Pelvis). The Test May Identify Blocked Sections.

$53.11

Methodology

Rates are sourced directly from CMS Physician Fee Schedule files, indexed quarterly. Non-facility and facility prices are calculated using the published GPCI for each locality and the year's conversion factor.

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