Physician
Alam, Syed
Alam, Syed was paid $138K by Medicaid between Sep 2018 and Jan 2022, across 17 billing codes. Its largest line is 99215, doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex) — 46% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoALAM, SYED
BAKERSFIELD, CA 93308
BAKERSFIELD, CA 93308
33aNPI1073541512assigned 06/30/2006
33bProvider typePulmonary Disease Physician
28Total paid$138K
24GClaims4,982
24DCodes billed17
24AFirst – last monthSep 2018 – Jan 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Pulmonary Disease Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#75 of 225
Median peer was paid$53K
This provider vs. median2.6×
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 | 299 | $7K | |
| 2019 | 1,912 | $36K | |
| 2020 | 2,116 | $55K | |
| 2021 | 637 | $39K | |
| 2022 | 18 | $698.95 |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 46% | 1,286 | 1,240 | $64K |
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | 39% | 650 | 195 | $53K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 5.2% | 155 | 73 | $7K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 3.2% | 161 | 158 | $4K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 2.3% | 45 | 43 | $3K |
| 99239 | Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes | 2.1% | 48 | 44 | $3K |
| 94729 | <1% | 39 | 39 | $650.57 | |
| 94726 | <1% | 27 | 27 | $650.44 | |
| 94060 | <1% | 39 | 39 | $623.84 | |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 13 | 13 | $527.12 |
| 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% | 12 | 12 | $357.20 |
| 71046 | Radiologic examination, chest; 2 views | <1% | 17 | 17 | $232.38 |
5 more codes
| G8427 | Eligible clinician attests to documenting in the medical record they obtained, updated, or reviewed the patient's current medications | <1% | 1,386 | $184.65 |
| 94760 | <1% | 1,045 | $65.05 | |
| 96372 | Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular | <1% | 15 | $33.08 |
| 99072 | 0% | 30 | $0.00 | |
| A4215 | Needle, sterile, any size, each | 0% | 14 | $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.