Kidney Guardian

Kidney Guardian was paid $268K by Medicaid between Mar 2020 and Sep 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 99233, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) — 72% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoKIDNEY GUARDIAN
TEMPE, AZ 85282

33aNPI1013475326assigned 03/05/2019

33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician

28Total paid$268K

24GClaims4,173

24DCodes billed6

24AFirst – last monthMar 2020 – Sep 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Arizona

Rank by total paid#119 of 395

Median peer was paid$68K

This provider vs. median3.9×

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
2020	1,054	$59K
2021	1,404	$98K
2022	1,006	$68K
2023	597	$37K
2024incomplete	112	$6K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99233	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m	72%	3,043	803	$193K
99232	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	12%	695	291	$33K
99291	Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes	7.3%	148	88	$20K
99215	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis	4.4%	191	133	$12K
99223	Prolong inpt eval add15 m	2.6%	67	64	$7K
99254		1.5%	29	28	$4K

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 officialSAMKARI, MHD KUSSAY (OWNER/PROVIDER)