Physician
Blush, Joel
Blush, Joel was paid $101K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 99309, Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, low to moderate complexity — 38% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBLUSH, JOEL
PORT WASHINGTON, NY 11050
PORT WASHINGTON, NY 11050
33aNPI1265403653assigned 02/01/2006
33bProvider typeNephrology Physician
28Total paid$101K
24GClaims9,151
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Nephrology Physician providers in New York
Rank by total paid#111 of 559
Median peer was paid$18K
This provider vs. median5.8×
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 | 408 | $8K | |
| 2019 | 1,017 | $16K | |
| 2020 | 1,767 | $17K | |
| 2021 | 1,404 | $16K | |
| 2022 | 1,583 | $18K | |
| 2023 | 1,489 | $14K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,483 | $13K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99309 | Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, low to moderate complexity | 38% | 3,385 | 2,517 | $38K |
| 99308 | Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, straightforward | 30% | 3,654 | 1,722 | $31K |
| 90960 | End-stage renal disease related services monthly, for patients 20 years and older, with 4 or more face-to-face visits | 19% | 550 | 549 | $19K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 8.0% | 860 | 209 | $8K |
| 99307 | 2.5% | 401 | 245 | $3K | |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 1.4% | 184 | 63 | $1K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 1.1% | 85 | 79 | $1K |
| 99306 | Prolong nursin fac eval 15m | <1% | 32 | 28 | $494.39 |
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.