Physician
Desert Physicians Medical Group Health
Desert Physicians Medical Group Health was paid $7.06M by Medicaid between Jul 2020 and Nov 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is 99223, Prolong inpt eval add15 m — 88% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDESERT PHYSICIANS MEDICAL GROUP HEALTH
PALM SPRINGS, CA 92262
PALM SPRINGS, CA 92262
33aNPI1134742703assigned 05/18/2020
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$7.06M
24GClaims18,069
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthJul 2020 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#20 of 2,679
Median peer was paid$13K
This provider vs. median560×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1,311 | $610K | |
| 2021 | 3,964 | $1.30M | |
| 2022 | 4,542 | $1.62M | |
| 2023 | 5,028 | $1.97M | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,224 | $1.56M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 88% | 11,065 | 10,897 | $6.23M |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 8.3% | 4,155 | 2,161 | $588K |
| 99238 | Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | 1.4% | 898 | 889 | $96K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | <1% | 217 | 147 | $66K |
| 99310 | Prolong nursin fac eval 15m | <1% | 1,207 | 520 | $57K |
| 99309 | Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, low to moderate complexity | <1% | 457 | 304 | $18K |
| 99239 | Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes | <1% | 12 | 12 | $2K |
| 99460 | <1% | 31 | 30 | $1K | |
| 99306 | Prolong nursin fac eval 15m | <1% | 14 | 13 | $999.32 |
| 99315 | <1% | 13 | 13 | $494.26 |
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 officialKIM, TAE (CEO)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Tae Hyun Kim DPM INC | Van Nuys, CA | $129K |
| Cerritos Eye Medical Center, INC. | Cerritos, CA | $101K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.