Physician
Lake Charles Memorial Heart and Vascular Center
Lake Charles Memorial Heart and Vascular Center was paid $1.74M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 46 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 infoLAKE CHARLES MEMORIAL HEART AND VASCULAR CENTER
LAKE CHARLES, LA 70601
LAKE CHARLES, LA 70601
33aNPI1407808405assigned 05/17/2006
33bProvider typeThoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Physician
28Total paid$1.74M
24GClaims101,022
24DCodes billed46
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Physician providers in Louisiana
Rank by total paid#2 of 8
Median peer was paid$4K
This provider vs. median424×
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 JOHNSON-HATCHER, DAWN 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 | 13,224 | $166K | |
| 2019 | 14,499 | $187K | |
| 2020 | 11,875 | $167K | |
| 2021 | 15,359 | $266K | |
| 2022 | 18,587 | $363K | |
| 2023 | 17,449 | $328K | |
| 2024incomplete | 10,029 | $268K |
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% | 15,893 | 14,402 | $820K |
| 93010 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | 17% | 52,374 | 47,168 | $302K |
| 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 | 15% | 8,314 | 7,295 | $253K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 10% | 9,901 | 8,949 | $178K |
| 93000 | 4.2% | 10,015 | 8,923 | $73K | |
| 99204 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, moderate complexity | 3.3% | 1,011 | 873 | $58K |
| 78452 | Myocardial perfusion imaging, tomographic (SPECT); multiple studies at rest and/or stress | 1.4% | 278 | 239 | $24K |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | <1% | 211 | 193 | $8K |
| 93018 | <1% | 1,236 | 1,085 | $8K | |
| 87636 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus types A and B | <1% | 44 | 41 | $4K |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 33 | 33 | $3K |
| A9500 | Technetium tc-99m sestamibi, diagnostic, per study dose | <1% | 25 | 24 | $2K |
34 more codes
| 93016 | <1% | 177 | $1K | |
| 93458 | <1% | 23 | $1K | |
| 93244 | <1% | 94 | $1K | |
| 99221 | <1% | 42 | $1K | |
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | <1% | 45 | $943.54 |
| 87651 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Streptococcus, group A, amplified probe | <1% | 45 | $914.70 |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | <1% | 37 | $878.78 |
| 93015 | <1% | 17 | $614.80 | |
| 93242 | <1% | 97 | $579.73 | |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) | <1% | 24 | $533.49 |
| 74176 | Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; without contrast material | <1% | 14 | $462.02 |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day | <1% | 42 | $371.36 |
| 76937 | <1% | 52 | $252.29 | |
| 93296 | <1% | 27 | $112.72 | |
| 71045 | Radiologic examination, chest; single view | <1% | 50 | $103.27 |
| 71046 | Radiologic examination, chest; 2 views | <1% | 18 | $6.82 |
| T1015 | A visit at a community health center or clinic (one all-in rate) | 0% | 158 | $0.00 |
| H0036 | Community psychiatric support and treatment, per 15 minutes | 0% | 187 | $0.00 |
| 1003F | 0% | 20 | $0.00 | |
| 1159F | 0% | 32 | $0.00 | |
| 1158F | 0% | 20 | $0.00 | |
| 3078F | 0% | 26 | $0.00 | |
| H2017 | Psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutes | 0% | 152 | $0.00 |
| 1160F | 0% | 32 | $0.00 | |
| 99024 | 0% | 53 | $0.00 | |
| 1036F | 0% | 26 | $0.00 | |
| 1126F | 0% | 15 | $0.00 | |
| 1111F | 0% | 27 | $0.00 | |
| 2000F | 0% | 20 | $0.00 | |
| 2010F | 0% | 20 | $0.00 | |
| Q9969 | Tc-99m from non-highly enriched uranium source, full cost recovery add-on, per study dose | 0% | 25 | $0.00 |
| 3074F | 0% | 29 | $0.00 | |
| 2001F | 0% | 21 | $0.00 | |
| 3008F | 0% | 20 | $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 officialJOHNSON-HATCHER, DAWN (CFO)
Parent organizationSOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, INC
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.