Patel, Tushar

Patel, Tushar was paid $2.54M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jul 2023, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is 78815, Positron emission tomography (PET) for limited area imaging — 67% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoPATEL, TUSHAR
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA 92708

33aNPI1093884538assigned 11/07/2006

33bProvider typeNuclear Medicine Physician

28Total paid$2.54M

24GClaims6,251

24DCodes billed10

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jul 2023

Compared with peers

Next to other Nuclear Medicine Physician providers in California

Rank by total paid#6 of 32

Median peer was paid$140K

This provider vs. median18×

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	659	$240K
2019	1,467	$541K
2020	1,318	$506K
2021	1,275	$516K
2022	1,179	$520K
2023	353	$213K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
78815	Positron emission tomography (PET) for limited area imaging	67%	1,690	892	$1.70M
A9552	Fluorodeoxyglucose f-18 fdg, diagnostic, per study dose, up to 45 millicuries	12%	1,003	986	$311K
74178		9.5%	908	898	$241K
71270		8.3%	1,057	1,046	$210K
78816		1.6%	48	29	$41K
Q9967	Low osmolar contrast material, 300-399 mg/ml iodine concentration, per ml	<1%	1,199	1,181	$13K
70553	Magnetic resonance imaging, brain; without contrast material, followed by contrast material and further sequences	<1%	74	44	$11K
A9580	Sodium fluoride f-18, diagnostic, per study dose, up to 30 millicuries	<1%	18	18	$6K
A9579	Injection, gadolinium-based magnetic resonance contrast agent, not otherwise specified (nos), per ml	<1%	225	200	$5K
71250		<1%	29	29	$2K

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.