Physician
Desert Trauma Surgeons, INC.
Desert Trauma Surgeons, INC. was paid $1.61M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 17 billing codes. Its largest line is 99232, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day — 50% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDESERT TRAUMA SURGEONS, INC.
LONG BEACH, CA 90813
LONG BEACH, CA 90813
33aNPI1144225426assigned 06/14/2005
33bProvider typeTrauma Surgery Physician
28Total paid$1.61M
24GClaims39,115
24DCodes billed17
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Trauma Surgery Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#1 of 28
Median peer was paid$16K
This provider vs. median98×
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 | 1,462 | $59K | |
| 2019 | 351 | $12K | |
| 2020 | 1,138 | $58K | |
| 2021 | 2,752 | $158K | |
| 2022 | 12,370 | $547K | |
| 2023 | 12,132 | $467K | |
| 2024incomplete | 8,910 | $311K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 50% | 25,805 | 13,868 | $801K |
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | 27% | 4,154 | 2,561 | $439K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 13% | 5,593 | 3,155 | $212K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 3.2% | 783 | 774 | $52K |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 1.6% | 434 | 431 | $26K |
| 99239 | Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes | 1.5% | 525 | 521 | $24K |
| 99238 | Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | <1% | 449 | 444 | $15K |
| 99231 | Subsequent hospital care, per day, straightforward or low complexity | <1% | 565 | 344 | $13K |
| 99285 | Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life | <1% | 124 | 123 | $11K |
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | <1% | 91 | 90 | $6K |
| 93308 | <1% | 138 | 134 | $3K | |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | <1% | 79 | 78 | $3K |
5 more codes
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 officialSTRUMWASSER, AARON (PRESIDENT)