Physician
Kothari, Alka
Kothari, Alka was paid $101K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 39 billing codes. Its largest line is 88305, Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination — 28% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoKOTHARI, ALKA
NORWALK, CA 90650
NORWALK, CA 90650
33aNPI1225097694assigned 03/22/2006
33bProvider typeCytopathology Physician
28Total paid$101K
24GClaims51,317
24DCodes billed39
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Cytopathology Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#27 of 69
Median peer was paid$50K
This provider vs. median2.0×
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 | 12,955 | $14K | |
| 2019 | 12,153 | $23K | |
| 2020 | 10,892 | $32K | |
| 2021 | 7,873 | $22K | |
| 2022 | 4,252 | $6K | |
| 2023 | 2,217 | $2K | |
| 2024incomplete | 975 | $1K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88305 | Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination | 28% | 622 | 592 | $28K |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | 15% | 9,013 | 5,922 | $15K |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | 11% | 11,300 | 6,249 | $11K |
| 87635 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe | 7.8% | 192 | 160 | $8K |
| 88312 | 6.1% | 202 | 195 | $6K | |
| 80048 | Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) | 5.4% | 3,931 | 1,589 | $5K |
| 83880 | 4.2% | 1,154 | 615 | $4K | |
| 88313 | 4.2% | 114 | 113 | $4K | |
| 86769 | 2.5% | 85 | 78 | $3K | |
| 85730 | 2.4% | 3,295 | 2,630 | $2K | |
| 84484 | 2.1% | 1,881 | 1,432 | $2K | |
| 81001 | 1.7% | 3,773 | 3,452 | $2K |
27 more codes
| 83690 | 1.5% | 2,053 | $2K | |
| 85610 | 1.5% | 3,143 | $1K | |
| 87086 | Culture, bacterial; quantitative colony count, urine | 1.4% | 1,613 | $1K |
| 82948 | 1.3% | 2,668 | $1K | |
| 88304 | <1% | 65 | $830.27 | |
| 87077 | <1% | 583 | $605.30 | |
| 81003 | <1% | 1,804 | $596.02 | |
| 83605 | <1% | 486 | $551.00 | |
| 85027 | <1% | 808 | $537.35 | |
| 87186 | <1% | 359 | $314.13 | |
| 84443 | Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) | <1% | 134 | $290.20 |
| 85007 | <1% | 798 | $273.19 | |
| 83735 | <1% | 307 | $268.04 | |
| 84703 | <1% | 188 | $105.91 | |
| 82553 | <1% | 65 | $76.32 | |
| 86328 | <1% | 38 | $75.61 | |
| 83036 | Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) | <1% | 45 | $48.93 |
| 87081 | <1% | 55 | $35.59 | |
| 86850 | <1% | 87 | $31.73 | |
| 86901 | <1% | 95 | $27.32 | |
| 86900 | <1% | 81 | $23.28 | |
| 82150 | <1% | 39 | $21.32 | |
| 87400 | <1% | 42 | $20.02 | |
| 84100 | <1% | 41 | $16.87 | |
| 85014 | <1% | 68 | $12.69 | |
| 85018 | <1% | 74 | $12.53 | |
| 83615 | <1% | 16 | $7.86 |
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.