Mellano, Christen

Mellano, Christen was paid $5K by Medicaid between Jul 2019 and Jan 2022, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is J1030, Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg — 79% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoMELLANO, CHRISTEN
TORRANCE, CA 90505

33aNPI1396980074assigned 12/09/2008

33bProvider typeSports Medicine (Orthopaedic Surgery) Physician

28Total paid$5K

24GClaims634

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJul 2019 – Jan 2022

Compared with peers

Next to other Sports Medicine (Orthopaedic Surgery) Physician providers in California

Rank by total paid#26 of 33

Median peer was paid$22K

This provider vs. median0.2×

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	88	$1K
2020	81	$905.90
2021	449	$3K
2022	16	$0.00

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
J1030	Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg	79%	387	377	$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	15%	80	79	$749.38
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity	5.1%	127	120	$258.15
20610		1.4%	40	39	$71.43

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.