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Alka Kothari, M.D., INC.

Alka Kothari, M.D., INC. was paid $62K by Medicaid between Jan 2019 and Nov 2024, across 31 billing codes. Its largest line is 88305, Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination — 30% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoALKA KOTHARI, M.D., INC.
NORWALK, CA 90650
33aNPI1063471423assigned 03/22/2006
33bProvider typeSpecialist
28Total paid$62K
24GClaims27,439
24DCodes billed31
24AFirst – last monthJan 2019 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Specialist providers in California

Rank by total paid#585 of 1,230
Median peer was paid$51K
This provider vs. median1.2×

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

$0$2.0K$4.0K$6.0K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
2019194$0.00
2020757$3K
20212,004$9K
20222,205$9K
202311,733$26K
2024incomplete10,546$16K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
88305 Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination 30% 566 538 $19K
87635 Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe 11% 163 139 $7K
88312 11% 298 290 $7K
80053 Comprehensive metabolic panel 10% 4,525 3,237 $6K
85025 Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count 8.4% 5,976 3,537 $5K
88313 5.1% 133 132 $3K
80048 Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) 3.3% 1,561 615 $2K
83880 3.0% 373 241 $2K
84484 2.0% 893 774 $1K
85730 1.7% 1,490 1,323 $1K
84443 Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) 1.7% 570 531 $1K
82948 1.3% 1,819 623 $828.42
19 more codes
87086 Culture, bacterial; quantitative colony count, urine 1.2% 785 $774.11
81001 1.2% 1,620 $744.12
85610 1.2% 1,572 $733.54
83690 1.1% 784 $707.23
83605 1.0% 446 $644.77
86769 <1% 12 $505.56
80061 Lipid panel <1% 304 $392.84
83735 <1% 359 $370.47
87077 <1% 279 $334.79
85007 <1% 735 $317.70
83036 Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) <1% 217 $292.26
81003 <1% 1,010 $279.42
84703 <1% 308 $276.02
87186 <1% 155 $214.51
88304 <1% 12 $169.94
84100 <1% 193 $140.51
86593 <1% 252 $108.31
86328 <1% 13 $14.50
86901 <1% 16 $6.37

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 officialKOTHARI, ALKA (PRESIDENT)