Desert Heart Center LTD
Desert Heart Center LTD was paid $186K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99233, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) — 35% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDESERT HEART CENTER LTD
PHOENIX, AZ 85032
PHOENIX, AZ 85032
33aNPI1225089014assigned 05/15/2006
33bProvider typeSpecialist
28Total paid$186K
24GClaims3,433
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Specialist providers in Arizona
Rank by total paid#78 of 179
Median peer was paid$112K
This provider vs. median1.7×
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 | 637 | $35K | |
| 2019 | 575 | $25K | |
| 2020 | 781 | $42K | |
| 2021 | 565 | $39K | |
| 2022 | 659 | $36K | |
| 2023 | 155 | $7K | |
| 2024incomplete | 61 | $2K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 35% | 1,195 | 380 | $64K |
| 93306 | Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete | 23% | 769 | 723 | $44K |
| 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 | 23% | 1,049 | 936 | $43K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 19% | 420 | 374 | $35K |
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 officialGALLEGOS, LYDIA (OFFICE MANAGER)