Cardiovascular Institute of South Texas, PLLC

Cardiovascular Institute of South Texas, PLLC was paid $7K by Medicaid between Dec 2018 and Jan 2023, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 93306, Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete — 80% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE OF SOUTH TEXAS, PLLC
HELOTES, TX 78023

33aNPI1386150985assigned 12/18/2017

33bProvider typeCardiovascular Disease Physician

28Total paid$7K

24GClaims523

24DCodes billed7

24AFirst – last monthDec 2018 – Jan 2023

Compared with peers

Next to other Cardiovascular Disease Physician providers in Texas

Rank by total paid#103 of 225

Median peer was paid$6K

This provider vs. median1.3×

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	26	$149.56
2019	91	$443.56
2020	119	$677.07
2021	181	$3K
2022	91	$3K
2023	15	$632.49

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	80%	300	279	$6K
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	11%	31	26	$792.18
99232	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	5.4%	104	39	$401.85
99215	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis	3.3%	50	50	$248.76
93000		<1%	12	12	$16.50
G8950	Elevated or hypertensive blood pressure reading documented, and the indicated follow-up is documented	0%	12	12	$0.00
G8427	Eligible clinician attests to documenting in the medical record they obtained, updated, or reviewed the patient's current medications	0%	14	13	$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 officialKUO, TZY SHIUAN (VP AND CO-PRINCIPAL)