Gihwala, Ramesh

Gihwala, Ramesh was paid $236K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 99% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoGIHWALA, RAMESH
GASTONIA, NC 28052

33aNPI1447200183assigned 05/11/2006

33bProvider typePsychiatry Physician

28Total paid$236K

24GClaims4,884

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Psychiatry Physician providers in North Carolina

Rank by total paid#72 of 165

Median peer was paid$187K

This provider vs. median1.3×

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	572	$28K
2019	732	$34K
2020	889	$49K
2021	616	$30K
2022	480	$15K
2023	910	$41K
2024incomplete	685	$39K

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	99%	4,829	3,281	$233K
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	1.3%	55	34	$3K

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.