First Choice Physician Partners
First Choice Physician Partners was paid $945K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jul 2024, across 33 billing codes. Its largest line is 99291, Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes — 54% of everything it billed.
BREA, CA 92821
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in California
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.
Paid by month
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2,384 | $60K | |
| 2019 | 2,213 | $76K | |
| 2020 | 3,466 | $88K | |
| 2021 | 4,603 | $166K | |
| 2022 | 6,399 | $105K | |
| 2023 | 17,307 | $309K | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,415 | $142K |
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 | 54% | 10,360 | 2,675 | $515K |
| 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 | 14% | 5,169 | 4,913 | $134K |
| 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 | 11% | 1,648 | 1,635 | $105K |
| 51798 | 7.4% | 1,395 | 1,386 | $70K | |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 5.7% | 4,464 | 4,180 | $54K |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | 3.0% | 731 | 710 | $29K |
| 52000 | 1.3% | 123 | 123 | $12K | |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | <1% | 591 | 366 | $8K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 338 | 328 | $5K |
| 99292 | <1% | 172 | 111 | $4K | |
| 31500 | <1% | 141 | 128 | $3K | |
| 93010 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | <1% | 284 | 252 | $2K |
21 more codes
| 73562 | <1% | 72 | $2K | |
| 73110 | <1% | 43 | $1K | |
| G2012 | Brief communication technology-based service, e.g. virtual check-in, by a physician or other qualified health care professional who can report evaluation and management services, provided to an established patient, not originating from a related e/m service provided within the previous 7 days nor leading to an e/m service or procedure within the next 24 hours or soonest available appointment; 5-10 minutes of medical discussion | <1% | 68 | $793.70 |
| 92950 | <1% | 66 | $543.44 | |
| 94060 | <1% | 12 | $450.30 | |
| 36556 | <1% | 14 | $310.09 | |
| 36620 | <1% | 14 | $41.69 | |
| 1159F | 0% | 2,435 | $0.00 | |
| 3725F | 0% | 1,079 | $0.00 | |
| 1160F | 0% | 2,418 | $0.00 | |
| 3078F | 0% | 1,209 | $0.00 | |
| 3077F | 0% | 189 | $0.00 | |
| 3074F | 0% | 1,222 | $0.00 | |
| 1036F | 0% | 2,994 | $0.00 | |
| 3008F | 0% | 2,502 | $0.00 | |
| 1125F | 0% | 418 | $0.00 | |
| 3079F | 0% | 335 | $0.00 | |
| 1126F | 0% | 81 | $0.00 | |
| 99309 | Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, low to moderate complexity | 0% | 27 | $0.00 |
| 3075F | 0% | 115 | $0.00 | |
| 1034F | 0% | 58 | $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.
Who's on the registration
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.