Physician
Desert Advanced Imaging Medical Center
Desert Advanced Imaging Medical Center was paid $18.18M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 94 billing codes. Its largest line is 77067, Screening mammography, bilateral, including computer-aided detection — 18% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDESERT ADVANCED IMAGING MEDICAL CENTER
PALM DESERT, CA 92260
PALM DESERT, CA 92260
33aNPI1568416147assigned 05/19/2006
33bProvider typeDiagnostic Radiology Physician
28Total paid$18.18M
24GClaims223,703
24DCodes billed94
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Diagnostic Radiology Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#3 of 797
Median peer was paid$6K
This provider vs. median3,234×
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 BERGER, HOWARD 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 | 23,324 | $1.26M | |
| 2019 | 29,695 | $2.15M | |
| 2020 | 28,349 | $2.58M | |
| 2021 | 23,722 | $1.86M | |
| 2022 | 28,457 | $2.78M | |
| 2023 | 45,751 | $3.68M | |
| 2024incomplete | 44,405 | $3.87M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77067 | Screening mammography, bilateral, including computer-aided detection | 18% | 31,722 | 31,623 | $3.24M |
| 72148 | Magnetic resonance imaging, lumbar spine; without contrast material | 7.0% | 5,321 | 4,882 | $1.27M |
| 73721 | Magnetic resonance imaging, any joint of lower extremity; without contrast material | 6.4% | 4,613 | 3,655 | $1.17M |
| 70553 | Magnetic resonance imaging, brain; without contrast material, followed by contrast material and further sequences | 5.1% | 2,297 | 2,030 | $928K |
| 74178 | 3.9% | 2,543 | 2,525 | $707K | |
| 77066 | Tomosynthesis, mammo | 3.8% | 5,690 | 5,640 | $694K |
| 76642 | 3.7% | 9,343 | 8,992 | $674K | |
| 70486 | 3.6% | 2,515 | 2,511 | $657K | |
| 72141 | 3.4% | 2,705 | 2,532 | $624K | |
| 73221 | 3.2% | 2,262 | 1,881 | $578K | |
| 76700 | Ultrasound, abdominal, real time with image documentation; complete | 3.1% | 8,276 | 8,247 | $560K |
| 70551 | Magnetic resonance imaging, brain; without contrast material | 2.8% | 2,019 | 1,832 | $505K |
82 more codes
| 76856 | Ultrasound, pelvic (nonobstetric), real time with image documentation; complete | 2.8% | 8,894 | $500K |
| 77063 | Screening digital breast tomosynthesis, bilateral | 2.6% | 11,133 | $468K |
| 76830 | Ultrasound, transvaginal | 2.4% | 7,496 | $431K |
| 71046 | Radiologic examination, chest; 2 views | 2.3% | 19,878 | $421K |
| 71250 | 1.8% | 1,384 | $328K | |
| 76536 | 1.8% | 6,459 | $325K | |
| 74176 | Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; without contrast material | 1.8% | 1,260 | $321K |
| 76705 | Ultrasound, abdominal, real time with image documentation; limited | 1.6% | 5,766 | $283K |
| 72100 | 1.5% | 11,410 | $278K | |
| 77065 | Tomosynthesis, mammo | 1.5% | 2,621 | $265K |
| 74183 | 1.2% | 462 | $225K | |
| 71271 | <1% | 623 | $175K | |
| 70491 | <1% | 587 | $167K | |
| 73630 | <1% | 7,843 | $154K | |
| 76770 | <1% | 2,334 | $144K | |
| 72146 | <1% | 672 | $143K | |
| 73030 | <1% | 6,782 | $139K | |
| 73560 | <1% | 9,001 | $134K | |
| 70450 | Computed tomography, head or brain; without contrast material | <1% | 582 | $133K |
| 77062 | <1% | 1,532 | $131K | |
| 72050 | <1% | 3,398 | $112K | |
| 93970 | <1% | 800 | $105K | |
| 77080 | <1% | 4,080 | $99K | |
| 73130 | <1% | 4,151 | $88K | |
| 74177 | Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; with contrast material | <1% | 314 | $80K |
| 72072 | <1% | 2,930 | $75K | |
| 73562 | <1% | 3,103 | $59K | |
| 73610 | <1% | 2,890 | $59K | |
| 71270 | <1% | 215 | $55K | |
| 72197 | <1% | 112 | $54K | |
| 73110 | <1% | 2,359 | $50K | |
| 77061 | <1% | 548 | $45K | |
| 19083 | <1% | 72 | $41K | |
| 78815 | Positron emission tomography (PET) for limited area imaging | <1% | 25 | $38K |
| 76775 | <1% | 792 | $33K | |
| 73502 | <1% | 1,093 | $33K | |
| 72040 | <1% | 1,359 | $30K | |
| 72110 | <1% | 696 | $26K | |
| 74018 | <1% | 1,189 | $25K | |
| 73718 | <1% | 78 | $25K | |
| G0297 | Low dose ct scan (ldct) for lung cancer screening | <1% | 73 | $22K |
| 76870 | <1% | 423 | $22K | |
| 76882 | <1% | 928 | $22K | |
| 72131 | <1% | 102 | $22K | |
| 73522 | <1% | 578 | $20K | |
| 93971 | <1% | 281 | $18K | |
| 93880 | <1% | 195 | $17K | |
| A9575 | Injection, gadoterate meglumine, 0.1 ml | <1% | 903 | $14K |
| 74220 | <1% | 445 | $14K | |
| 73080 | <1% | 623 | $14K | |
| 76641 | <1% | 72 | $8K | |
| 73523 | <1% | 200 | $8K | |
| 72125 | Computed tomography, cervical spine; without contrast material | <1% | 24 | $8K |
| 74246 | <1% | 67 | $7K | |
| 72158 | <1% | 13 | $7K | |
| 78226 | <1% | 24 | $6K | |
| 93925 | <1% | 84 | $5K | |
| 71020 | <1% | 152 | $4K | |
| 71260 | Computed tomography, thorax, diagnostic; with contrast material | <1% | 14 | $4K |
| 72070 | <1% | 143 | $3K | |
| 75571 | <1% | 12 | $3K | |
| 70480 | <1% | 12 | $3K | |
| 10005 | <1% | 27 | $3K | |
| 73521 | <1% | 63 | $2K | |
| G0279 | Diagnostic digital breast tomosynthesis, unilateral or bilateral (list separately in addition to 77065 or 77066) | <1% | 68 | $2K |
| 72220 | <1% | 82 | $2K | |
| 71045 | Radiologic examination, chest; single view | <1% | 110 | $2K |
| Q9967 | Low osmolar contrast material, 300-399 mg/ml iodine concentration, per ml | <1% | 1,319 | $2K |
| 73590 | <1% | 99 | $2K | |
| 76805 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, fetal and maternal evaluation | <1% | 26 | $1K |
| 72052 | <1% | 36 | $1K | |
| 93976 | <1% | 12 | $1K | |
| 73564 | <1% | 65 | $1K | |
| 74240 | <1% | 13 | $1K | |
| 73140 | <1% | 63 | $863.78 | |
| 72082 | <1% | 29 | $836.25 | |
| 76706 | <1% | 13 | $771.28 | |
| A9537 | Technetium tc-99m mebrofenin, diagnostic, per study dose, up to 15 millicuries | <1% | 12 | $404.64 |
| 71101 | <1% | 13 | $320.00 | |
| 73620 | <1% | 17 | $291.21 | |
| 73120 | <1% | 26 | $287.92 | |
| 77072 | <1% | 13 | $253.11 |
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 officialBERGER, HOWARD (PRESIDENT)
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