Physician
Meri, Basem
Meri, Basem was paid $1.35M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 16 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 82% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMERI, BASEM
YUMA, AZ 85364
YUMA, AZ 85364
33aNPI1255320958assigned 10/17/2005
33bProvider typeFamily Medicine Physician
28Total paid$1.35M
24GClaims27,606
24DCodes billed16
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Family Medicine Physician providers in Arizona
Rank by total paid#60 of 442
Median peer was paid$77K
This provider vs. median18×
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 | 3,982 | $165K | |
| 2019 | 3,532 | $181K | |
| 2020 | 3,172 | $178K | |
| 2021 | 4,220 | $237K | |
| 2022 | 4,539 | $219K | |
| 2023 | 4,458 | $212K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,703 | $157K |
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 | 82% | 20,390 | 15,444 | $1.11M |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 9.5% | 2,642 | 2,160 | $128K |
| 99396 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, 40-64 years | 4.3% | 546 | 545 | $58K |
| 96372 | Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular | 1.3% | 1,766 | 1,412 | $18K |
| 20610 | 1.2% | 466 | 421 | $17K | |
| 99395 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, 18-39 years | <1% | 105 | 105 | $10K |
| J2930 | Injection, methylprednisolone sodium succinate, up to 125 mg | <1% | 620 | 523 | $2K |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | <1% | 24 | 24 | $2K |
| 99443 | <1% | 18 | 15 | $2K | |
| J3301 | Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg | <1% | 423 | 380 | $387.86 |
| 94640 | Pressurized or nonpressurized inhalation treatment for acute airway obstruction | <1% | 27 | 27 | $251.31 |
| J3420 | Injection, vitamin b-12 cyanocobalamin, up to 1000 mcg | <1% | 239 | 182 | $234.59 |
4 more codes
| J2920 | Injection, methylprednisolone sodium succinate, up to 40 mg | <1% | 18 | $65.88 |
| G0439 | Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit | <1% | 79 | $25.99 |
| J1100 | Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg | <1% | 227 | $17.64 |
| G8427 | Eligible clinician attests to documenting in the medical record they obtained, updated, or reviewed the patient's current medications | 0% | 16 | $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.