Kipper, Samuel

Kipper, Samuel was paid $549K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Aug 2022, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 78815, Positron emission tomography (PET) for limited area imaging — 85% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoKIPPER, SAMUEL
SANTA ANA, CA 92705

33aNPI1265498836assigned 04/24/2006

33bProvider typeNuclear Radiology Physician

28Total paid$549K

24GClaims1,245

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Aug 2022

Compared with peers

Next to other Nuclear Radiology Physician providers in California

Rank by total paid#6 of 20

Median peer was paid$17K

This provider vs. median33×

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	670	$307K
2019	103	$26K
2020	178	$68K
2021	216	$109K
2022	78	$39K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
78815	Positron emission tomography (PET) for limited area imaging	85%	719	483	$464K
A9552	Fluorodeoxyglucose f-18 fdg, diagnostic, per study dose, up to 45 millicuries	15%	506	500	$84K
77080		<1%	20	20	$477.27

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.