Besharat, Farid

Besharat, Farid was paid $661K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Aug 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 99291, Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes — 44% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBESHARAT, FARID
LOS ANGELES, CA 90015

33aNPI1366548620assigned 09/15/2006

33bProvider typePulmonary Disease Physician

28Total paid$661K

24GClaims13,065

24DCodes billed6

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Aug 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Pulmonary Disease Physician providers in California

Rank by total paid#30 of 225

Median peer was paid$53K

This provider vs. median12×

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	3,646	$116K
2019	4,511	$218K
2020	2,367	$163K
2021	1,574	$92K
2022	418	$25K
2023	200	$18K
2024incomplete	349	$29K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99291	Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes	44%	3,866	563	$288K
99233	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m	24%	5,676	1,134	$161K
99223	Prolong inpt eval add15 m	16%	1,528	1,435	$108K
99292		11%	1,345	224	$72K
99356		2.5%	496	77	$16K
99235		2.4%	154	28	$16K

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.