Physician
Desert Kidney Associates PLC
Desert Kidney Associates PLC was paid $9.14M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 21 billing codes. Its largest line is 90960, End-stage renal disease related services monthly, for patients 20 years and older, with 4 or more face-to-face visits — 32% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDESERT KIDNEY ASSOCIATES PLC
MESA, AZ 85210
MESA, AZ 85210
33aNPI1144372905assigned 01/18/2007
33bProvider typeNephrology Physician
28Total paid$9.14M
24GClaims147,873
24DCodes billed21
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Nephrology Physician providers in Arizona
Rank by total paid#5 of 27
Median peer was paid$110K
This provider vs. median83×
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 | 19,702 | $1.09M | |
| 2019 | 20,789 | $1.21M | |
| 2020 | 24,185 | $1.36M | |
| 2021 | 25,459 | $1.64M | |
| 2022 | 24,051 | $1.64M | |
| 2023 | 20,773 | $1.37M | |
| 2024incomplete | 12,914 | $832K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90960 | End-stage renal disease related services monthly, for patients 20 years and older, with 4 or more face-to-face visits | 32% | 22,348 | 21,856 | $2.89M |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 25% | 42,100 | 14,597 | $2.26M |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 20% | 47,912 | 18,747 | $1.79M |
| 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 | 8.2% | 17,164 | 16,053 | $747K |
| 90961 | 8.1% | 6,576 | 6,491 | $741K | |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 2.5% | 2,686 | 2,470 | $229K |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 1.2% | 2,020 | 1,937 | $114K |
| 99255 | <1% | 313 | 307 | $54K | |
| 99443 | <1% | 1,002 | 971 | $53K | |
| 90962 | <1% | 511 | 504 | $43K | |
| 99231 | Subsequent hospital care, per day, straightforward or low complexity | <1% | 1,840 | 689 | $41K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 594 | 557 | $37K |
9 more codes
| 99204 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved) | <1% | 456 | $37K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) | <1% | 1,073 | $33K |
| 90935 | Hemodialysis procedure with single evaluation by a physician | <1% | 691 | $26K |
| 99254 | <1% | 189 | $24K | |
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | <1% | 49 | $5K |
| 99442 | <1% | 170 | $5K | |
| 99308 | Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, straightforward | <1% | 68 | $3K |
| G2211 | Visit complexity inherent to evaluation and management associated with medical care services that serve as the continuing focal point for all needed health care services and/or with medical care services that are part of ongoing care related to a patient's single, serious condition or a complex condition. (add-on code, list separately in addition to office/outpatient evaluation and management visit, new or established) | <1% | 99 | $360.75 |
| 99441 | <1% | 12 | $281.64 |
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 officialMARWAH, DHARMINDER (PHYSICIAN OWNER)