Physician
Salem, Christopher
Salem, Christopher was paid $483K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Aug 2024, across 37 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 31% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSALEM, CHRISTOPHER
IRVINE, CA 92614
IRVINE, CA 92614
33aNPI1124273313assigned 12/01/2008
33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician
28Total paid$483K
24GClaims27,404
24DCodes billed37
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Aug 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#263 of 988
Median peer was paid$32K
This provider vs. median15×
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 | 3,893 | $46K | |
| 2019 | 3,115 | $71K | |
| 2020 | 5,681 | $76K | |
| 2021 | 5,209 | $96K | |
| 2022 | 5,411 | $87K | |
| 2023 | 3,601 | $85K | |
| 2024incomplete | 494 | $22K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 31% | 3,097 | 2,529 | $147K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 19% | 6,474 | 1,800 | $92K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 8.5% | 3,561 | 1,191 | $41K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 8.4% | 1,340 | 1,263 | $41K |
| 99308 | Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, straightforward | 7.9% | 3,948 | 2,389 | $38K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 7.7% | 580 | 507 | $37K |
| 99348 | 3.1% | 349 | 333 | $15K | |
| 99336 | 2.6% | 884 | 873 | $13K | |
| 99306 | Prolong nursin fac eval 15m | 2.5% | 437 | 421 | $12K |
| 96156 | 2.1% | 349 | 343 | $10K | |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 1.3% | 201 | 189 | $6K |
| 99349 | 1.3% | 329 | 304 | $6K |
25 more codes
| 93000 | 1.2% | 162 | $6K | |
| 99309 | Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, low to moderate complexity | 1.0% | 538 | $5K |
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | <1% | 139 | $3K |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 22 | $2K |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | <1% | 54 | $2K |
| 99335 | <1% | 254 | $2K | |
| 99307 | <1% | 369 | $1K | |
| 99238 | Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | <1% | 92 | $1K |
| G0180 | Physician or allowed practitioner certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians and allowed practitioners to affirm the initial implementation of the plan of care | <1% | 42 | $683.06 |
| 90674 | <1% | 14 | $351.12 | |
| 99305 | <1% | 12 | $173.92 | |
| 96127 | <1% | 220 | $161.20 | |
| 90471 | Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine | <1% | 12 | $53.52 |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 1,010 | $51.42 |
| 99334 | <1% | 57 | $50.32 | |
| 3078F | <1% | 1,050 | $0.01 | |
| 3077F | 0% | 115 | $0.00 | |
| 1160F | 0% | 90 | $0.00 | |
| 1159F | 0% | 88 | $0.00 | |
| 3074F | 0% | 961 | $0.00 | |
| 1170F | 0% | 70 | $0.00 | |
| 3079F | 0% | 106 | $0.00 | |
| 3008F | 0% | 219 | $0.00 | |
| 3075F | 0% | 84 | $0.00 | |
| 1126F | 0% | 75 | $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.