Physician
Hekmat, Vahid
Hekmat, Vahid was paid $321K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 18 billing codes. Its largest line is 93303, Transthoracic echocardiography for congenital cardiac anomalies, follow-up or limited study — 37% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoHEKMAT, VAHID
WEST HILLS, CA 91307
WEST HILLS, CA 91307
33aNPI1609851187assigned 12/07/2005
33bProvider typePediatric Cardiology Physician
28Total paid$321K
24GClaims8,044
24DCodes billed18
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Pediatric Cardiology Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#22 of 45
Median peer was paid$120K
This provider vs. median2.7×
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 | 921 | $20K | |
| 2019 | 1,547 | $66K | |
| 2020 | 1,304 | $55K | |
| 2021 | 1,055 | $49K | |
| 2022 | 1,073 | $39K | |
| 2023 | 1,349 | $53K | |
| 2024incomplete | 795 | $40K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93303 | Transthoracic echocardiography for congenital cardiac anomalies, follow-up or limited study | 37% | 1,301 | 1,301 | $117K |
| 93325 | 20% | 1,309 | 1,309 | $66K | |
| 93320 | 20% | 1,310 | 1,310 | $63K | |
| 93000 | 12% | 2,078 | 2,075 | $39K | |
| 93306 | Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete | 4.0% | 117 | 117 | $13K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 3.4% | 633 | 615 | $11K |
| 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 | 2.2% | 284 | 284 | $7K |
| 92552 | <1% | 140 | 140 | $1K | |
| 99244 | Office or other outpatient consultation, moderate to high complexity | <1% | 13 | 13 | $888.10 |
| 99393 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, late childhood (5-11 years) | <1% | 53 | 53 | $799.62 |
| 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% | 18 | 18 | $748.92 |
| 90471 | Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine | <1% | 81 | 81 | $600.60 |
6 more codes
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.