Physician
Southwest Heart Institute Medical Corporation
Southwest Heart Institute Medical Corporation was paid $55K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2022, across 13 billing codes. Its largest line is 93306, Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete — 60% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSOUTHWEST HEART INSTITUTE MEDICAL CORPORATION
TEMECULA, CA 92592
TEMECULA, CA 92592
33aNPI1447262340assigned 08/12/2006
33bProvider typeCardiovascular Disease Physician
28Total paid$55K
24GClaims1,344
24DCodes billed13
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Cardiovascular Disease Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#310 of 714
Median peer was paid$28K
This provider vs. median1.9×
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 | 78 | $2K | |
| 2019 | 98 | $74.62 | |
| 2020 | 27 | $111.37 | |
| 2021 | 371 | $21K | |
| 2022 | 770 | $32K |
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 | 60% | 190 | 188 | $33K |
| 93000 | 10% | 256 | 255 | $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 | 9.0% | 427 | 411 | $5K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 7.5% | 97 | 94 | $4K |
| 93015 | 6.5% | 42 | 42 | $4K | |
| 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 | 5.5% | 44 | 44 | $3K |
| 94760 | <1% | 64 | 64 | $353.92 | |
| 3079F | 0% | 16 | 16 | $0.00 | |
| 1036F | 0% | 54 | 54 | $0.00 | |
| 3074F | 0% | 14 | 14 | $0.00 | |
| 3008F | 0% | 43 | 43 | $0.00 | |
| 1159F | 0% | 56 | 56 | $0.00 |
1 more codes
| 1160F | 0% | 41 | $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 officialVARGAS, MICHAEL (OWNER/PHYSICIAN)