Physician
Digestive Care Specialists LLC
Digestive Care Specialists LLC was paid $122K by Medicaid between Jan 2020 and Nov 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 37% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDIGESTIVE CARE SPECIALISTS LLC
GERMANTOWN, MD 20876
GERMANTOWN, MD 20876
33aNPI1225565401assigned 05/18/2017
33bProvider typeGastroenterology Physician
28Total paid$122K
24GClaims1,198
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthJan 2020 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Gastroenterology Physician providers in Maryland
Rank by total paid#23 of 55
Median peer was paid$64K
This provider vs. median1.9×
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 | 472 | $47K | |
| 2021 | 540 | $49K | |
| 2024incomplete | 186 | $26K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 37% | 404 | 387 | $45K |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | 30% | 384 | 370 | $37K |
| 43239 | Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, flexible, transoral; with biopsy, single or multiple | 13% | 199 | 185 | $16K |
| 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 | 8.0% | 56 | 51 | $10K |
| 88305 | Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination | 4.8% | 59 | 53 | $6K |
| 45380 | Colonoscopy, flexible; with biopsy, single or multiple | 3.4% | 25 | 24 | $4K |
| 45378 | Colonoscopy, flexible; diagnostic, including collection of specimen(s) | 1.5% | 15 | 12 | $2K |
| 88312 | <1% | 14 | 14 | $1K | |
| 88341 | <1% | 14 | 14 | $723.25 | |
| 88342 | <1% | 14 | 14 | $433.86 | |
| 88313 | <1% | 14 | 14 | $337.29 |
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 officialCHARBEL, HALIM (SOLE MBR)