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Chong U Kim MD INC

Chong U Kim MD INC was paid $35K by Medicaid between Jul 2018 and Aug 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99233, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) — 56% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCHONG U KIM MD INC
TORRANCE, CA 90505
33aNPI1447379508assigned 03/28/2007
28Total paid$35K
24GClaims1,194
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthJul 2018 – Aug 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in California

Rank by total paid#996 of 2,679
Median peer was paid$13K
This provider vs. median2.8×

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

$0$2.0K$4.0K$6.0K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
201834$346.39
2019211$9K
2020455$14K
202185$3K
2022138$6K
2023174$2K
2024incomplete97$545.96
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99233 Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m 56% 629 196 $19K
99223 Prolong inpt eval add15 m 30% 205 192 $10K
99308 Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, straightforward 11% 285 203 $4K
99309 Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, low to moderate complexity 3.4% 75 37 $1K

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 officialKIM, CHONG (CEO)
Same official

Other billing entities under KIM, CHONG

Full network →
ProviderLocationPaid
Brookdale Medical Associates INCTacoma, WA$89K

Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.