Physician
Castaneda, Augusto
Castaneda, Augusto was paid $1.13M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 22 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 35% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCASTANEDA, AUGUSTO
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93103
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93103
33aNPI1023178936assigned 12/11/2006
33bProvider typePediatrics Physician
28Total paid$1.13M
24GClaims40,202
24DCodes billed22
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Pediatrics Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#117 of 1,490
Median peer was paid$15K
This provider vs. median76×
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 | 7,556 | $107K | |
| 2019 | 6,991 | $199K | |
| 2020 | 6,241 | $238K | |
| 2021 | 6,129 | $241K | |
| 2022 | 5,828 | $229K | |
| 2023 | 5,027 | $89K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,430 | $29K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 35% | 10,783 | 9,585 | $396K |
| 99393 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, late childhood (5-11 years) | 17% | 2,029 | 2,024 | $195K |
| 99394 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, adolescent (12-17 years) | 17% | 1,710 | 1,705 | $190K |
| 99392 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, early childhood (1-4 years) | 11% | 1,334 | 1,279 | $122K |
| 99391 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, infant (under 1 year) | 7.0% | 905 | 793 | $80K |
| 92551 | 5.2% | 4,354 | 4,339 | $59K | |
| 90688 | 2.3% | 2,311 | 2,293 | $26K | |
| 99173 | 1.5% | 4,276 | 4,262 | $17K | |
| 85018 | 1.4% | 6,045 | 5,941 | $15K | |
| 81005 | <1% | 4,303 | 4,275 | $9K | |
| 90670 | <1% | 602 | 538 | $7K | |
| 90686 | <1% | 448 | 443 | $5K |
10 more codes
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.