Physician
Alterman, Russell
Alterman, Russell was paid $279K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jul 2023, across 18 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 52% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoALTERMAN, RUSSELL
NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92660
NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92660
33aNPI1487609939assigned 05/23/2006
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$279K
24GClaims5,203
24DCodes billed18
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jul 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#358 of 2,679
Median peer was paid$13K
This provider vs. median22×
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 | 1,840 | $109K | |
| 2019 | 1,676 | $101K | |
| 2020 | 373 | $22K | |
| 2021 | 713 | $34K | |
| 2022 | 309 | $11K | |
| 2023 | 292 | $1K |
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 | 52% | 1,742 | 1,614 | $146K |
| 99070 | 24% | 1,884 | 1,731 | $67K | |
| 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 | 13% | 425 | 420 | $35K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 6.8% | 265 | 246 | $19K |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | 3.1% | 116 | 116 | $9K |
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | <1% | 42 | 38 | $3K |
| 87426 | Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | <1% | 152 | 141 | $423.96 |
| G2023 | Specimen collection for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), any specimen source | <1% | 35 | 29 | $140.76 |
| J1885 | Injection, ketorolac tromethamine, per 15 mg | <1% | 13 | 13 | $50.00 |
| J0696 | Injection, ceftriaxone sodium, per 250 mg | <1% | 12 | 12 | $44.00 |
| 99000 | <1% | 12 | 12 | $3.63 | |
| 99401 | 0% | 93 | 84 | $0.00 |
6 more codes
| 87811 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | 0% | 27 | $0.00 |
| 87804 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type | 0% | 168 | $0.00 |
| 87880 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A | 0% | 12 | $0.00 |
| 81003 | 0% | 27 | $0.00 | |
| 96372 | Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular | 0% | 125 | $0.00 |
| 94760 | 0% | 53 | $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.