Physician
Thornton Surgical Specialists LLC
Thornton Surgical Specialists LLC was paid $49K by Medicaid between Jul 2020 and May 2022, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99232, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day — 81% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoTHORNTON SURGICAL SPECIALISTS LLC
THORNTON, CO 80229
THORNTON, CO 80229
33aNPI1174146310assigned 05/22/2020
33bProvider typeTrauma Surgery Physician
28Total paid$49K
24GClaims2,005
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJul 2020 – May 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Trauma Surgery Physician providers in Colorado
Rank by total paid#3 of 6
Median peer was paid$29K
This provider vs. median1.7×
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 | 775 | $11K | |
| 2021 | 1,025 | $30K | |
| 2022 | 205 | $8K |
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 | 81% | 1,522 | 574 | $39K |
| 99231 | Subsequent hospital care, per day, straightforward or low complexity | 17% | 431 | 257 | $8K |
| 99221 | 1.1% | 37 | 16 | $520.24 | |
| 99238 | Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | 1.0% | 15 | 12 | $510.48 |
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 officialGATEWOOD, JOSEPH (MD/AO)
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