Physician
Alekal, Prashanti
Alekal, Prashanti was paid $71K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Aug 2023, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 98% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoALEKAL, PRASHANTI
COSTA MESA, CA 92626
COSTA MESA, CA 92626
33aNPI1194874693assigned 01/10/2007
33bProvider typePediatrics Physician
28Total paid$71K
24GClaims3,555
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Aug 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Pediatrics Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#535 of 1,490
Median peer was paid$15K
This provider vs. median4.7×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 454 | $5K | |
| 2019 | 880 | $12K | |
| 2020 | 645 | $17K | |
| 2021 | 651 | $15K | |
| 2022 | 591 | $14K | |
| 2023 | 334 | $8K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 98% | 2,658 | 2,160 | $70K |
| G0071 | Payment for communication technology-based services for 5 minutes or more of a virtual (non-face-to-face) communication between an rural health clinic (rhc) or federally qualified health center (fqhc) practitioner and rhc or fqhc patient, or 5 minutes or more of remote evaluation of recorded video and/or images by an rhc or fqhc practitioner, occurring in lieu of an office visit; rhc or fqhc only | 1.6% | 45 | 44 | $1K |
| 90471 | Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine | <1% | 94 | 88 | $331.51 |
| 99000 | <1% | 13 | 13 | $18.15 | |
| 1158F | 0% | 59 | 56 | $0.00 | |
| 1160F | 0% | 150 | 143 | $0.00 | |
| 3078F | 0% | 63 | 57 | $0.00 | |
| 1126F | 0% | 195 | 182 | $0.00 | |
| 3074F | 0% | 67 | 59 | $0.00 | |
| 3351F | 0% | 211 | 188 | $0.00 |
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.