Physician
Sound Pain Alliance
Sound Pain Alliance was paid $285K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2022, across 18 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 68% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSOUND PAIN ALLIANCE
BELLINGHAM, WA 98226
BELLINGHAM, WA 98226
33aNPI1326308982assigned 05/16/2012
33bProvider typePain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician
28Total paid$285K
24GClaims7,496
24DCodes billed18
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician providers in Washington
Rank by total paid#3 of 12
Median peer was paid$4K
This provider vs. median66×
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 | 5,092 | $66K | |
| 2019 | 1,114 | $114K | |
| 2020 | 858 | $72K | |
| 2021 | 371 | $30K | |
| 2022 | 61 | $4K |
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 | 68% | 3,147 | 3,031 | $193K |
| G0482 | Drug test(s), definitive, utilizing (1) drug identification methods able to identify individual drugs and distinguish between structural isomers (but not necessarily stereoisomers), including, but not limited to gc/ms (any type, single or tandem) and lc/ms (any type, single or tandem and excluding immunoassays (e.g., ia, eia, elisa, emit, fpia) and enzymatic methods (e.g., alcohol dehydrogenase)), (2) stable isotope or other universally recognized internal standards in all samples (e.g., to control for matrix effects, interferences and variations in signal strength), and (3) method or drug-specific calibration and matrix-matched quality control material (e.g., to control for instrument variations and mass spectral drift); qualitative or quantitative, all sources, includes specimen validity testing, per day; 15-21 drug class(es), including metabolite(s) if performed | 20% | 288 | 285 | $57K |
| 80307 | Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes; immunoassay | 10.0% | 333 | 331 | $28K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 1.7% | 89 | 81 | $5K |
| 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 | <1% | 61 | 59 | $1K |
| J1040 | Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 80 mg | <1% | 70 | 67 | $346.94 |
| J1100 | Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg | <1% | 12 | 12 | $5.46 |
| G9562 | Patients who had a follow-up evaluation conducted at least every three months during opioid therapy | 0% | 360 | 349 | $0.00 |
| 4004F | 0% | 163 | 163 | $0.00 | |
| G8427 | Eligible clinician attests to documenting in the medical record they obtained, updated, or reviewed the patient's current medications | 0% | 746 | 700 | $0.00 |
| G8730 | Pain assessment documented as positive using a standardized tool and a follow-up plan is documented | 0% | 749 | 703 | $0.00 |
| G9584 | Patient evaluated for risk of misuse of opiates by using a brief validated instrument (e.g., opioid risk tool, soapp-r) or patient interviewed at least once during opioid therapy | 0% | 350 | 340 | $0.00 |
6 more codes
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 officialLEDER, JOSH (ADMINISTRATOR)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Sound Pain Alliance | Bellingham, WA | $920K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.