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Vinay Sunku MD INC

Vinay Sunku MD INC was paid $910K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 8 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 — 47% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoVINAY SUNKU MD INC
LANCASTER, CA 93534
33aNPI1225046311assigned 08/04/2006
33bProvider typeNephrology Physician
28Total paid$910K
24GClaims12,219
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Nephrology Physician providers in California

Rank by total paid#50 of 363
Median peer was paid$80K
This provider vs. median11×

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

$0$10K$20K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
20181,006$45K
20191,361$109K
20201,340$116K
20211,946$161K
20222,176$178K
20232,264$167K
2024incomplete2,126$134K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
90960 End-stage renal disease related services monthly, for patients 20 years and older, with 4 or more face-to-face visits 47% 2,323 2,321 $429K
99233 Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m 16% 3,831 1,415 $148K
99223 Prolong inpt eval add15 m 15% 1,233 1,196 $139K
99232 Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity 11% 3,382 946 $99K
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 7.0% 1,192 1,178 $64K
90961 3.0% 206 206 $27K
99205 Prolong outpt/office vis <1% 39 39 $3K
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity <1% 13 13 $101.70

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 officialSUNKU, VINAY (PRESIDENT)
Same official

Other billing entities under SUNKU, VINAY

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ProviderLocationPaid
Antelope Valley Kidney Institute, a Professional CorporationLancaster, CA$6.40M

Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.