Harry Balian, MD

6 locations · Heartbeat Cardiovascular Medical Group · Bandb Medical Group Inc · Chaparral Medical Group Inc · Sonora Community Hospital · San Juan Regional Medical Center, Inc.

Hospitals listed: Glendale Adventist Medical Center · Glendale Mem Hospital & Hlth Center · USC Verdugo Hills Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

3 hospitals

These rate the hospital, not this clinician. Most measures at most hospitals are no different from the national rate.

• Glendale Adventist Medical CenterGlendale, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Adventist Health, which runs 28 hospitals in 3 statesPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 69% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Pressure ulcer rate: 0.08 (0 to 0.57) · 9,330 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.073, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.277, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.085, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Glendale Mem Hospital & Hlth CenterGlendale, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of CommonSpirit Health, which runs 145 hospitals in 19 statesPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 67% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.105, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• USC Verdugo Hills HospitalGlendale, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of University of Southern California, which runs 4 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 65% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.19, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Ratio of unplanned hospital visits after hospital outpatient surgery: 0.7 (0.5 to 1) · 396 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024

$646,534

Medicare paid this office $646,534 for 1,956 people.

This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.

Procedures Medicare counted

Procedures year by year

Times billed to Original Medicare each year. A blank year means fewer than 11 people had it, or none: Medicare does not publish smaller counts. Medicare Advantage patients are not included.

Who their Medicare patients are

1,956 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 76 · Under 65 5% · 85 and older 17% · Women 52% · Also on Medicaid 86% · Health risk score 1.96. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical cardiology clinician is at 1.71.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Coronary heart disease 73% · Diabetes 63% · Depression 48% · Heart failure 46% · Chronic kidney disease 35% · COPD 34% · Dementia 30% · Atrial fibrillation 29% · Stroke 15% · Cancer 14%.

The office billed $1,638,857, Medicare allowed $817,509 and paid $646,534; for 11,414 services of 102 kinds; $850 of it was for drugs given in the office and $645,684 for care.

Original Medicare patients only. A risk score of 1.0 is the average Medicare patient; higher means sicker. Any count under 11 is hidden.

Year by year

Original Medicare only. A service billed for fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden, so the lines can add up to less than the year's total.

$45,890 in 2024

Medicaid paid $45,890 for 3,306 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 178 people in a month for one service.

Medicaid and CHIP claims where this clinician did the service, fee-for-service and managed care together. Any month with fewer than 11 patients is hidden, so small Medicaid practices undercount.

$1,789,647

Pharmacies billed $1,789,647 in 2024.

This is pharmacy cost, not the office bill, and not what patients paid.

Opioids were 0% of their Part D prescriptions (0 of 13,345) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical cardiology clinician is at 0%.

10,724 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $1,789,647 in drug cost · 17 antibiotic prescriptions to 14 people.

Part D prescriptions only. The opioid rate is opioid prescriptions as a share of all this clinician's Part D prescriptions; surgeons and pain specialists run higher than others, so it is shown against the same specialty.

Year by year

Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.