Physician
Schwarz, Ernst
Schwarz, Ernst was paid $1.71M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 30 billing codes. Its largest line is 93306, Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete — 25% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSCHWARZ, ERNST
LOS ANGELES, CA 90048
LOS ANGELES, CA 90048
33aNPI1679634984assigned 12/12/2006
33bProvider typeCardiovascular Disease Physician
28Total paid$1.71M
24GClaims36,765
24DCodes billed30
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Cardiovascular Disease Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#58 of 714
Median peer was paid$28K
This provider vs. median60×
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 | 1,915 | $81K | |
| 2019 | 4,954 | $189K | |
| 2020 | 5,965 | $221K | |
| 2021 | 6,602 | $235K | |
| 2022 | 6,367 | $193K | |
| 2023 | 6,437 | $457K | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,525 | $335K |
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 | 25% | 5,249 | 5,215 | $424K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 21% | 1,779 | 1,718 | $353K |
| 93229 | 18% | 849 | 839 | $309K | |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 8.1% | 4,192 | 4,111 | $139K |
| 93000 | 4.5% | 4,121 | 4,090 | $77K | |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 4.2% | 6,716 | 2,086 | $72K |
| 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 | 3.1% | 1,322 | 1,321 | $53K |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | 2.7% | 994 | 992 | $46K |
| 93015 | 2.2% | 729 | 721 | $38K | |
| 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 | 1.8% | 1,386 | 1,364 | $30K |
| 93010 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | 1.7% | 2,959 | 2,683 | $29K |
| 93016 | 1.4% | 1,544 | 1,541 | $25K |
18 more codes
| 93880 | 1.4% | 288 | $24K | |
| 93018 | 1.1% | 1,579 | $18K | |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | <1% | 89 | $12K |
| 93228 | <1% | 847 | $11K | |
| 78452 | Myocardial perfusion imaging, tomographic (SPECT); multiple studies at rest and/or stress | <1% | 233 | $10K |
| 93458 | <1% | 44 | $8K | |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) | <1% | 478 | $8K |
| 93227 | <1% | 388 | $6K | |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) | <1% | 303 | $4K |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine) | <1% | 99 | $3K |
| 99152 | <1% | 74 | $3K | |
| 99238 | Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | <1% | 385 | $3K |
| J2785 | Injection, regadenoson, 0.1 mg | <1% | 15 | $1K |
| 93017 | <1% | 46 | $1K | |
| 93224 | <1% | 16 | $1K | |
| A9500 | Technetium tc-99m sestamibi, diagnostic, per study dose | <1% | 15 | $389.44 |
| 99239 | Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes | <1% | 14 | $53.40 |
| 93241 | 0% | 12 | $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.