Physician
Primary Medicine Associates, LLC
Primary Medicine Associates, LLC was paid $650K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 17 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 84% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPRIMARY MEDICINE ASSOCIATES, LLC
AUBURN, AL 36830
AUBURN, AL 36830
33aNPI1407099286assigned 04/09/2009
33bProvider typeFamily Medicine Physician
28Total paid$650K
24GClaims17,355
24DCodes billed17
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Family Medicine Physician providers in Alabama
Rank by total paid#70 of 455
Median peer was paid$57K
This provider vs. median11×
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.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
Entity ProliferationAuthorized official PRICE, SAMUEL controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
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 | 982 | $59K | |
| 2019 | 827 | $51K | |
| 2020 | 623 | $46K | |
| 2021 | 1,717 | $88K | |
| 2022 | 2,772 | $119K | |
| 2023 | 4,807 | $158K | |
| 2024incomplete | 5,627 | $129K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 84% | 8,008 | 7,033 | $543K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 8.7% | 1,683 | 1,151 | $57K |
| 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 | 6.8% | 410 | 348 | $44K |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 3,237 | 2,739 | $4K |
| 87880 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A | <1% | 86 | 77 | $844.90 |
| 87804 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type | <1% | 57 | 50 | $477.88 |
| 87426 | Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | <1% | 13 | 13 | $290.07 |
| 90688 | <1% | 13 | 12 | $124.88 | |
| 87400 | <1% | 12 | 12 | $45.00 | |
| 90471 | Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine | <1% | 13 | 13 | $16.00 |
| 3080F | 0% | 13 | 12 | $0.00 | |
| 3008F | 0% | 1,984 | 1,640 | $0.00 |
5 more codes
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 officialPRICE, SAMUEL (CFO)
Parent organizationEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL DEVELOPMENT
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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.