West Bank Cardiology LLC

West Bank Cardiology LLC was paid $291K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jul 2024, across 13 billing codes. Its largest line is 93306, Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete — 47% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoWEST BANK CARDIOLOGY LLC
PLAQUEMINE, LA 70764

33aNPI1124225362assigned 06/29/2007

33bProvider typeCardiovascular Disease Physician

28Total paid$291K

24GClaims9,122

24DCodes billed13

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jul 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Cardiovascular Disease Physician providers in Louisiana

Rank by total paid#13 of 72

Median peer was paid$51K

This provider vs. median5.7×

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.

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	2,105	$51K
2019	2,004	$59K
2020	1,321	$46K
2021	1,423	$56K
2022	1,106	$43K
2023	911	$32K
2024incomplete	252	$5K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
93306	Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete	47%	1,771	1,324	$137K
93880		17%	861	590	$49K
99214	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity	17%	1,554	1,426	$48K
93000		7.0%	1,969	1,775	$20K
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity	6.3%	819	725	$18K
99401		2.8%	536	497	$8K
99215	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis	1.8%	146	139	$5K
99205	Prolong outpt/office vis	<1%	28	26	$2K
99211	Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, minimal severity	<1%	206	160	$1K
93005	Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; tracing only, without interpretation and report	<1%	567	542	$664.79
93922		<1%	21	12	$324.62
99406		<1%	33	27	$134.64

1 more codes

93010

Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only

<1%

611

$83.22

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 officialVALDEZ, JOSEPH (PRESIDENT)

Same official

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