Cestaro, Anthony

Cestaro, Anthony was paid $88K by Medicaid between Jun 2019 and Apr 2023, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 87636, Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus types A and B — 35% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCESTARO, ANTHONY
MIDDLETOWN, NY 10941

33aNPI1346693546assigned 07/22/2016

33bProvider typePhysician Assistant

28Total paid$88K

24GClaims780

24DCodes billed8

24AFirst – last monthJun 2019 – Apr 2023

Compared with peers

Next to other Physician Assistant providers in New York

Rank by total paid#35 of 263

Median peer was paid$3K

This provider vs. median27×

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
2019	15	$1K
2020	150	$17K
2021	162	$21K
2022	377	$42K
2023	76	$7K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
87636	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus types A and B	35%	223	223	$30K
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity	32%	292	283	$28K
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	13%	90	90	$11K
S9083	Global fee urgent care centers	12%	69	69	$10K
U0003	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid (dna or rna); severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), amplified probe technique, making use of high throughput technologies as described by cms-2020-01-r	6.4%	63	63	$6K
87634		<1%	12	12	$842.40
87651	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Streptococcus, group A, amplified probe	<1%	14	13	$491.26
U0005	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid (dna or rna); severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), amplified probe technique, cdc or non-cdc, making use of high throughput technologies, completed within 2 calendar days from date of specimen collection (list separately in addition to either hcpcs code u0003 or u0004) as described by cms-2020-01-r2	<1%	17	17	$388.75

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.