American Hearing & Balance
American Hearing & Balance was paid $2.59M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 13 billing codes. Its largest line is V5298, Hearing aid, not otherwise classified — 79% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoAMERICAN HEARING & BALANCE
LOS ANGELES, CA 90045
LOS ANGELES, CA 90045
33aNPI1740324508assigned 02/16/2007
33bProvider typeAudiologist-Hearing Aid Fitter
28Total paid$2.59M
24GClaims24,916
24DCodes billed13
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Audiologist-Hearing Aid Fitter providers in California
Rank by total paid#4 of 46
Median peer was paid$92K
This provider vs. median28×
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 | 1,374 | $163K | |
| 2019 | 2,989 | $296K | |
| 2020 | 3,326 | $423K | |
| 2021 | 4,231 | $455K | |
| 2022 | 4,449 | $575K | |
| 2023 | 4,648 | $415K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,899 | $263K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V5298 | Hearing aid, not otherwise classified | 79% | 2,613 | 2,583 | $2.04M |
| 99244 | Office or other outpatient consultation, moderate to high complexity | 6.7% | 3,698 | 3,696 | $174K |
| 92557 | 4.2% | 5,189 | 5,161 | $110K | |
| 92570 | 4.0% | 3,883 | 3,881 | $103K | |
| 92540 | 2.8% | 1,424 | 1,424 | $72K | |
| 92550 | 1.2% | 4,821 | 4,799 | $30K | |
| 92537 | 1.1% | 1,354 | 1,354 | $30K | |
| 92546 | <1% | 990 | 990 | $12K | |
| 92547 | <1% | 586 | 586 | $7K | |
| 92551 | <1% | 187 | 186 | $6K | |
| 92567 | <1% | 139 | 135 | $4K | |
| 92588 | <1% | 15 | 15 | $509.27 |
1 more codes
| 92507 | Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or auditory processing disorder | 0% | 17 | $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 officialMICHAELS, KEITH (OWNER)