Agency
Discovery Health Services
Discovery Health Services was paid $612K by Medicaid between Feb 2021 and May 2023, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 87426, Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) — 100% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDISCOVERY HEALTH SERVICES
LA JOLLA, CA 92037
LA JOLLA, CA 92037
33aNPI1144821224assigned 11/04/2020
33bProvider typeNursing Care Agency
28Total paid$612K
24GClaims21,896
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthFeb 2021 – May 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Nursing Care Agency providers in California
Rank by total paid#4 of 8
Median peer was paid$561K
This provider vs. median1.1×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6,728 | $177K | |
| 2022 | 14,478 | $412K | |
| 2023 | 690 | $24K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87426 | Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | 100% | 21,807 | 17,088 | $612K |
| K1034 | Provision of covid-19 test, nonprescription self-administered and self-collected use, fda approved, authorized or cleared, one test count | <1% | 89 | 88 | $546.00 |
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.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialSTERNBERG, JEFFREY (CEO)