Physician
Arizona Pulmonary Specialists LTD
Arizona Pulmonary Specialists LTD was paid $15.09M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 30 billing codes. Its largest line is 99291, Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes — 31% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoARIZONA PULMONARY SPECIALISTS LTD
SCOTTSDALE, AZ 85258
SCOTTSDALE, AZ 85258
33aNPI1215986468assigned 05/07/2006
33bProvider typeCritical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician
28Total paid$15.09M
24GClaims225,201
24DCodes billed30
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician providers in Arizona
Rank by total paid#1 of 31
Median peer was paid$567K
This provider vs. median27×
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 | 34,973 | $1.78M | |
| 2019 | 34,167 | $1.70M | |
| 2020 | 40,036 | $2.48M | |
| 2021 | 43,491 | $3.40M | |
| 2022 | 28,546 | $2.08M | |
| 2023 | 25,119 | $2.01M | |
| 2024incomplete | 18,869 | $1.63M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | 31% | 33,063 | 14,825 | $4.70M |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 28% | 64,278 | 27,083 | $4.22M |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 14% | 48,591 | 17,239 | $2.05M |
| 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 | 7.4% | 21,838 | 20,725 | $1.12M |
| 99308 | Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, straightforward | 6.5% | 27,594 | 6,929 | $975K |
| 99309 | Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, low to moderate complexity | 4.8% | 14,646 | 5,704 | $722K |
| 99255 | 4.1% | 3,674 | 3,619 | $621K | |
| 99204 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, moderate complexity | 1.2% | 2,154 | 2,105 | $188K |
| 99306 | Prolong nursin fac eval 15m | <1% | 1,161 | 1,133 | $115K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | <1% | 1,323 | 1,252 | $109K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 1,588 | 1,496 | $103K |
| 94010 | <1% | 2,325 | 2,238 | $39K |
18 more codes
| 99254 | <1% | 248 | $32K | |
| 99310 | Prolong nursin fac eval 15m | <1% | 336 | $26K |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 216 | $23K |
| 94060 | <1% | 555 | $14K | |
| 71046 | Radiologic examination, chest; 2 views | <1% | 612 | $8K |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine) | <1% | 104 | $6K |
| 99292 | <1% | 71 | $6K | |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | <1% | 64 | $4K |
| 94618 | <1% | 150 | $3K | |
| 90688 | <1% | 182 | $2K | |
| 94729 | <1% | 90 | $2K | |
| 90471 | Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine | <1% | 104 | $2K |
| 94726 | <1% | 86 | $2K | |
| 99305 | <1% | 13 | $540.07 | |
| 99307 | <1% | 19 | $339.73 | |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) | <1% | 17 | $288.78 |
| 94664 | <1% | 12 | $88.33 | |
| 85018 | <1% | 87 | $87.77 |
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 officialBLAINE, TIFFANY (PRACTICE ADMINISTRATOR)