Physician
Better Life Pain Clinic, PLLC
Better Life Pain Clinic, PLLC was paid $26K by Medicaid between Nov 2021 and Dec 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 81% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBETTER LIFE PAIN CLINIC, PLLC
HOUSTON, TX 77066
HOUSTON, TX 77066
33aNPI1043834823assigned 06/08/2020
33bProvider typePain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician
28Total paid$26K
24GClaims1,233
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthNov 2021 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician providers in Texas
Rank by total paid#21 of 64
Median peer was paid$7K
This provider vs. median4.0×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 17 | $95.36 | |
| 2022 | 259 | $3K | |
| 2023 | 337 | $7K | |
| 2024incomplete | 620 | $17K |
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 | 81% | 937 | 813 | $21K |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | 8.7% | 32 | 30 | $2K |
| 80307 | Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes; immunoassay | 8.3% | 119 | 116 | $2K |
| 80305 | 2.0% | 128 | 119 | $542.62 | |
| J1100 | Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg | <1% | 17 | 14 | $8.88 |
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 officialGILTHORPE, STEFAN (PHYSICIAN)