Physician
Altitude Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates
Altitude Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates was paid $255K by Medicaid between Jul 2020 and Nov 2024, across 13 billing codes. Its largest line is 99233, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) — 49% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoALTITUDE PULMONARY AND CRITICAL CARE ASSOCIATES
GLENDALE, CA 91203
GLENDALE, CA 91203
33aNPI1346709458assigned 03/18/2019
33bProvider typeCritical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician
28Total paid$255K
24GClaims17,073
24DCodes billed13
24AFirst – last monthJul 2020 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#34 of 136
Median peer was paid$38K
This provider vs. median6.8×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 717 | $17K | |
| 2021 | 2,162 | $54K | |
| 2022 | 2,869 | $71K | |
| 2023 | 4,512 | $80K | |
| 2024incomplete | 6,813 | $33K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 49% | 7,897 | 2,403 | $125K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 18% | 1,376 | 1,366 | $46K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 16% | 2,743 | 1,027 | $42K |
| 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% | 3,244 | 3,154 | $34K |
| 94060 | 1.4% | 452 | 445 | $4K | |
| 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% | 368 | 366 | $2K |
| 94729 | <1% | 390 | 383 | $2K | |
| 94726 | <1% | 392 | 384 | $921.26 | |
| 71046 | Radiologic examination, chest; 2 views | <1% | 85 | 83 | $184.35 |
| 36600 | <1% | 36 | 36 | $85.46 | |
| 99211 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, minimal severity | <1% | 42 | 42 | $15.60 |
| 82803 | 0% | 24 | 24 | $0.00 |
1 more codes
| 87811 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | 0% | 24 | $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.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialABOULIAN, ARIN (PRESIDENT)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Azna Medical INC | Glendale, CA | $1K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.