Pacific Heart and Lung Surgeons INC

Pacific Heart and Lung Surgeons INC was paid $117K by Medicaid between Jul 2018 and Sep 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99291, Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes — 89% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoPACIFIC HEART AND LUNG SURGEONS INC
LAKEWOOD, CA 90712

33aNPI1659773349assigned 09/24/2014

33bProvider typeThoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Physician

28Total paid$117K

24GClaims1,543

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJul 2018 – Sep 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Physician providers in California

Rank by total paid#9 of 29

Median peer was paid$6K

This provider vs. median18×

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	96	$5K
2020	12	$917.35
2021	72	$3K
2022	467	$36K
2023	368	$32K
2024incomplete	528	$41K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99291	Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes	89%	1,265	508	$104K
99233	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m	4.2%	131	51	$5K
99223	Prolong inpt eval add15 m	4.1%	62	62	$5K
99292		2.8%	85	84	$3K

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 officialPANAGIOTIDES, GEORGE (PRESIDENT)