Physician
High Desert Heart Institute Medical Corporation
High Desert Heart Institute Medical Corporation was paid $373K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 34 billing codes. Its largest line is 93306, Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete — 24% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoHIGH DESERT HEART INSTITUTE MEDICAL CORPORATION
VICTORVILLE, CA 92395
VICTORVILLE, CA 92395
33aNPI1437173804assigned 07/27/2006
33bProvider typeNuclear Cardiology Physician
28Total paid$373K
24GClaims17,603
24DCodes billed34
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Nuclear Cardiology Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#3 of 17
Median peer was paid$31K
This provider vs. median12×
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 | 1,507 | $41K | |
| 2019 | 1,757 | $38K | |
| 2020 | 1,046 | $24K | |
| 2021 | 1,225 | $38K | |
| 2022 | 1,924 | $61K | |
| 2023 | 5,064 | $85K | |
| 2024incomplete | 5,080 | $86K |
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 | 24% | 2,400 | 2,372 | $91K |
| 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 | 14% | 3,128 | 2,845 | $51K |
| 78452 | Myocardial perfusion imaging, tomographic (SPECT); multiple studies at rest and/or stress | 13% | 1,394 | 1,374 | $49K |
| 93000 | 8.7% | 1,855 | 1,774 | $33K | |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 5.9% | 638 | 238 | $22K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 5.8% | 585 | 545 | $22K |
| 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 | 4.3% | 316 | 316 | $16K |
| 93016 | 3.8% | 837 | 820 | $14K | |
| 99244 | Office or other outpatient consultation, moderate to high complexity | 3.2% | 150 | 150 | $12K |
| 93018 | 2.6% | 862 | 845 | $10K | |
| 94760 | 2.3% | 1,977 | 1,781 | $9K | |
| G0506 | Comprehensive assessment of and care planning for patients requiring chronic care management services (list separately in addition to primary monthly care management service) | 1.7% | 333 | 332 | $6K |
22 more codes
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 1.5% | 142 | $6K |
| 99490 | Ccm add 20min | 1.4% | 403 | $5K |
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | 1.3% | 662 | $5K |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | 1.2% | 54 | $4K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day | <1% | 138 | $3K |
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | <1% | 31 | $3K |
| 93010 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | <1% | 545 | $3K |
| 99152 | <1% | 66 | $1K | |
| 96372 | Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular | <1% | 267 | $1K |
| 93224 | <1% | 15 | $1K | |
| G2211 | Visit complexity inherent to evaluation and management associated with medical care services that serve as the continuing focal point for all needed health care services and/or with medical care services that are part of ongoing care related to a patient's single, serious condition or a complex condition. (add-on code, list separately in addition to office/outpatient evaluation and management visit, new or established) | <1% | 300 | $988.72 |
| 36245 | <1% | 12 | $960.44 | |
| 99239 | Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes | <1% | 56 | $815.57 |
| 36140 | <1% | 13 | $809.88 | |
| G0108 | Diabetes outpatient self-management training services, individual, per 30 minutes | <1% | 15 | $599.79 |
| 93880 | <1% | 32 | $580.63 | |
| 93284 | <1% | 12 | $573.66 | |
| G0446 | Annual, face-to-face intensive behavioral therapy for cardiovascular disease, individual, 15 minutes | <1% | 98 | $463.23 |
| G0444 | Annual depression screening, 5 to 15 minutes | <1% | 216 | $187.46 |
| G0179 | Physician or allowed practitioner re-certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians and allowed practitioners to affirm the initial implementation of the plan of care | <1% | 13 | $114.14 |
| 99231 | Subsequent hospital care, per day, straightforward or low complexity | <1% | 13 | $102.68 |
| 99401 | 0% | 25 | $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 officialARUNASALAM, SIVA (PRESIDENT)