Phares, Joel

Phares, Joel was paid $29K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2020, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 93306, Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete — 78% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoPHARES, JOEL
NASHVILLE, TN 37232

33aNPI1467406314assigned 05/22/2006

33bProvider typeCardiovascular Disease Physician

28Total paid$29K

24GClaims1,153

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2020

Compared with peers

Next to other Cardiovascular Disease Physician providers in Tennessee

Rank by total paid#59 of 136

Median peer was paid$21K

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	279	$7K
2019	465	$13K
2020	409	$8K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
93306	Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete	78%	653	604	$22K
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	12%	125	117	$3K
93000		8.9%	349	319	$3K
93016		<1%	13	13	$87.99
93018		<1%	13	13	$50.83

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.