Medicaid Provider SpendingClaims paid 2018–2024 · HHS public file
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Wetzel, Gihan

Wetzel, Gihan was paid $10K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jan 2021, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 66% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoWETZEL, GIHAN
LOS ALAMITOS, CA 90720
33aNPI1124061296assigned 06/14/2006
28Total paid$10K
24GClaims117
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jan 2021
Compared with peers

Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in California

Rank by total paid#593 of 988
Median peer was paid$32K
This provider vs. median0.3×

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$500$1.0K$1.5K2018201920202021202220232024
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
201879$7K
201912$1K
202012$1K
202114$1K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99285 Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life 66% 76 76 $7K
99284 Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity 24% 27 27 $2K
99283 Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity 10% 14 14 $1K

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.