diff --git a/src/vs/editor/contrib/wordHighlighter/browser/wordHighlighter.ts b/src/vs/editor/contrib/wordHighlighter/browser/wordHighlighter.ts
index 525af0230a0da..f7bd8e2eededb 100644
--- a/src/vs/editor/contrib/wordHighlighter/browser/wordHighlighter.ts
+++ b/src/vs/editor/contrib/wordHighlighter/browser/wordHighlighter.ts
@@ -253,9 +253,10 @@ function computeOccurencesMultiModel(registry: LanguageFeatureRegistry<MultiDocu
 	return new TextualOccurenceRequest(model, selection, word, wordSeparators, otherModels);
 }
 
-registerModelAndPositionCommand('_executeDocumentHighlights', (accessor, model, position) => {
+registerModelAndPositionCommand('_executeDocumentHighlights', async (accessor, model, position) => {
 	const languageFeaturesService = accessor.get(ILanguageFeaturesService);
-	return getOccurrencesAtPosition(languageFeaturesService.documentHighlightProvider, model, position, CancellationToken.None);
+	const map = await getOccurrencesAtPosition(languageFeaturesService.documentHighlightProvider, model, position, CancellationToken.None);
+	return map?.get(model.uri);
 });
 
 class WordHighlighter {
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/api/test/browser/extHostApiCommands.test.ts b/src/vs/workbench/api/test/browser/extHostApiCommands.test.ts
index 35e7543d86466..3a60e4c025ba3 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/api/test/browser/extHostApiCommands.test.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/api/test/browser/extHostApiCommands.test.ts
@@ -681,6 +681,33 @@ suite('ExtHostLanguageFeatureCommands', function () {
 		});
 	});
 
+	// --- document highlights
+
+	test('"vscode.executeDocumentHighlights" API has stopped returning DocumentHighlight[]#200056', async function () {
+
+
+		disposables.push(extHost.registerDocumentHighlightProvider(nullExtensionDescription, defaultSelector, <vscode.DocumentHighlightProvider>{
+			provideDocumentHighlights() {
+				return [
+					new types.DocumentHighlight(new types.Range(0, 17, 0, 25), types.DocumentHighlightKind.Read)
+				];
+			}
+		}));
+
+		await rpcProtocol.sync();
+
+		return commands.executeCommand<vscode.DocumentHighlight[]>('vscode.executeDocumentHighlights', model.uri, new types.Position(0, 0)).then(values => {
+			assert.ok(Array.isArray(values));
+			assert.strictEqual(values.length, 1);
+			const [first] = values;
+			assert.strictEqual(first.range.start.line, 0);
+			assert.strictEqual(first.range.start.character, 17);
+			assert.strictEqual(first.range.end.line, 0);
+			assert.strictEqual(first.range.end.character, 25);
+		});
+
+	});
+
 	// --- outline
 
 	test('Outline, back and forth', function () {