Clinic
Tenet Healthsystem Desert INC.
Tenet Healthsystem Desert INC. was paid $7.73M by Medicaid between Apr 2018 and Nov 2024, across 26 billing codes. Its largest line is 43239, Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, flexible, transoral; with biopsy, single or multiple — 26% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoTENET HEALTHSYSTEM DESERT INC.
PALM SPRINGS, CA 92262
PALM SPRINGS, CA 92262
33aNPI1053416818assigned 09/14/2006
33bProvider typeAmbulatory Surgical Clinic/Center
28Total paid$7.73M
24GClaims20,122
24DCodes billed26
24AFirst – last monthApr 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulatory Surgical Clinic/Center providers in California
Rank by total paid#10 of 347
Median peer was paid$191K
This provider vs. median41×
Peers share this provider's primary NPPES type and state. Size alone says nothing about billing quality: a big agency or a hospital system is expected to sit far above the median.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
Entity ProliferationAuthorized official BURTNETT, MICHAEL controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service
Paid by month
Paid that monthNov–Dec 2024: claims still arriving when the file was cut, so these months run low for every provider
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 396 | $114K | |
| 2019 | 3,052 | $1.14M | |
| 2020 | 1,924 | $699K | |
| 2021 | 2,239 | $878K | |
| 2022 | 2,783 | $1.16M | |
| 2023 | 4,619 | $1.80M | |
| 2024incomplete | 5,109 | $1.93M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43239 | Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, flexible, transoral; with biopsy, single or multiple | 26% | 5,860 | 5,773 | $2.01M |
| 45380 | Colonoscopy, flexible; with biopsy, single or multiple | 22% | 3,462 | 3,402 | $1.68M |
| 45378 | Colonoscopy, flexible; diagnostic, including collection of specimen(s) | 19% | 3,346 | 3,295 | $1.43M |
| 66984 | Extracapsular cataract removal with insertion of intraocular lens prosthesis | 14% | 1,418 | 1,367 | $1.06M |
| 45385 | Colonoscopy, flexible; with removal of tumor(s), polyp(s), or other lesion(s) | 12% | 1,808 | 1,796 | $890K |
| 42820 | Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy; younger than age 12 | 2.9% | 83 | 82 | $227K |
| 64493 | 2.3% | 628 | 317 | $181K | |
| G0121 | Colorectal cancer screening; colonoscopy on individual not meeting criteria for high risk | 1.2% | 218 | 218 | $90K |
| 43248 | <1% | 155 | 155 | $50K | |
| C9777 | Esophageal mucosal integrity testing by electrical impedance, transoral, includes esophagoscopy or esophagogastroduodenoscopy | <1% | 14 | 14 | $24K |
| 58558 | <1% | 13 | 13 | $18K | |
| 43235 | <1% | 41 | 40 | $17K |
14 more codes
| 65426 | <1% | 12 | $10K | |
| 62323 | <1% | 24 | $8K | |
| Q3014 | Telehealth originating site facility fee | <1% | 276 | $7K |
| 99231 | Subsequent hospital care, per day, straightforward or low complexity | <1% | 217 | $6K |
| L8699 | Prosthetic implant, not otherwise specified | <1% | 696 | $3K |
| 93306 | Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete | <1% | 12 | $2K |
| 97803 | <1% | 39 | $2K | |
| 76000 | <1% | 38 | $1K | |
| V2632 | Posterior chamber intraocular lens | <1% | 1,064 | $968.63 |
| 0510 | <1% | 17 | $490.73 | |
| G8907 | Patient documented not to have experienced any of the following events: a burn prior to discharge; a fall within the facility; wrong site/side/patient/procedure/implant event; or a hospital transfer or hospital admission upon discharge from the facility | 0% | 51 | $0.00 |
| G8918 | Patient without preoperative order for iv antibiotic surgical site infection (ssi) prophylaxis | 0% | 51 | $0.00 |
| V2790 | Amniotic membrane for surgical reconstruction, per procedure | 0% | 12 | $0.00 |
| 64494 | 0% | 567 | $0.00 |
Claims and beneficiary counts add up across code × month rows, so one patient seen every month counts many times. Rows with fewer than 12 claims are suppressed by HHS, so small lines can be missing.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialBURTNETT, MICHAEL (SVP OF OUTPATIENT SERVICES, TENET)
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