Physician
Mello, Michael
Mello, Michael was paid $103K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 13 billing codes. Its largest line is 99222, Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity — 44% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMELLO, MICHAEL
GLENDALE, CA 91208
GLENDALE, CA 91208
33aNPI1356571566assigned 07/22/2009
33bProvider typeGastroenterology Physician
28Total paid$103K
24GClaims5,933
24DCodes billed13
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Gastroenterology Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#155 of 363
Median peer was paid$55K
This provider vs. median1.9×
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 | 157 | $3K | |
| 2019 | 128 | $4K | |
| 2020 | 312 | $10K | |
| 2021 | 463 | $18K | |
| 2022 | 1,951 | $30K | |
| 2023 | 2,147 | $28K | |
| 2024incomplete | 775 | $9K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 44% | 1,015 | 1,006 | $45K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 30% | 1,291 | 860 | $31K |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | 7.1% | 831 | 830 | $7K |
| 45380 | Colonoscopy, flexible; with biopsy, single or multiple | 6.6% | 350 | 347 | $7K |
| 43239 | Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, flexible, transoral; with biopsy, single or multiple | 6.1% | 306 | 305 | $6K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 3.2% | 548 | 543 | $3K |
| 45385 | Colonoscopy, flexible; with removal of tumor(s), polyp(s), or other lesion(s) | 1.1% | 12 | 12 | $1K |
| 99152 | <1% | 628 | 626 | $801.22 | |
| 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% | 205 | 205 | $584.16 |
| 45378 | Colonoscopy, flexible; diagnostic, including collection of specimen(s) | <1% | 27 | 27 | $391.24 |
| G9612 | Photodocumentation of two or more cecal landmarks to establish a complete examination | <1% | 359 | 359 | $281.94 |
| G8427 | Eligible clinician attests to documenting in the medical record they obtained, updated, or reviewed the patient's current medications | <1% | 14 | 13 | $124.29 |
1 more codes
| G8883 | Biopsy results reviewed, communicated, tracked and documented | 0% | 347 | $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.