Shams, Fariborz

Shams, Fariborz was paid $478K by Medicaid between Feb 2018 and Oct 2024, across 29 billing codes. Its largest line is 99233, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) — 36% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSHAMS, FARIBORZ
ANAHEIM, CA 92804

33aNPI1063421865assigned 08/08/2006

33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician

28Total paid$478K

24GClaims43,253

24DCodes billed29

24AFirst – last monthFeb 2018 – Oct 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in California

Rank by total paid#243 of 2,679

Median peer was paid$13K

This provider vs. median38×

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	570	$8K
2019	5,138	$60K
2020	13,524	$166K
2021	10,082	$129K
2022	9,493	$66K
2023	4,008	$30K
2024incomplete	438	$18K

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	36%	12,308	2,832	$174K
99232	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	25%	9,547	1,664	$121K
99308	Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, straightforward	12%	7,181	5,822	$58K
99223	Prolong inpt eval add15 m	9.3%	2,349	2,244	$44K
99495		5.0%	887	879	$24K
99238	Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less	4.0%	1,913	1,833	$19K
99306	Prolong nursin fac eval 15m	2.6%	1,028	992	$13K
99291	Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes	1.4%	137	93	$7K
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	<1%	1,192	1,090	$5K
99336		<1%	995	989	$4K
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity	<1%	1,595	1,385	$4K
99349		<1%	143	143	$2K

17 more codes

99309	Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, low to moderate complexity	<1%	137	$1K
31500		<1%	18	$1K
G0439	Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit	<1%	140	$739.49
99239	Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes	<1%	173	$662.15
99072		<1%	158	$550.47
96156		<1%	81	$314.12
99441		<1%	17	$144.15
G0008	Administration of influenza virus vaccine	<1%	83	$128.78
96150		<1%	42	$73.70
90686		<1%	83	$71.83
99211	Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, minimal severity	<1%	66	$62.86
G0444	Annual depression screening, 5 to 15 minutes	<1%	13	$29.29
99000		<1%	52	$16.90
96127		<1%	34	$10.29
G8427	Eligible clinician attests to documenting in the medical record they obtained, updated, or reviewed the patient's current medications	<1%	2,834	$0.01
99310	Prolong nursin fac eval 15m	0%	12	$0.00
3288F		0%	35	$0.00

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.