Physician
Sahara Medical Associates, PC
Sahara Medical Associates, PC was paid $1.30M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 19 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 39% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSAHARA MEDICAL ASSOCIATES, PC
JERSEY CITY, NJ 07306
JERSEY CITY, NJ 07306
33aNPI1528117827assigned 01/09/2007
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$1.30M
24GClaims36,031
24DCodes billed19
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in New Jersey
Rank by total paid#51 of 1,027
Median peer was paid$30K
This provider vs. median44×
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 | 4,916 | $216K | |
| 2019 | 3,279 | $136K | |
| 2020 | 4,045 | $162K | |
| 2021 | 6,451 | $253K | |
| 2022 | 6,799 | $218K | |
| 2023 | 6,105 | $179K | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,436 | $139K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 39% | 12,337 | 10,408 | $502K |
| 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 | 27% | 6,810 | 6,039 | $353K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 17% | 2,718 | 2,459 | $215K |
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | 13% | 5,234 | 4,594 | $172K |
| 36410 | 1.2% | 1,286 | 1,226 | $16K | |
| 90674 | <1% | 626 | 591 | $12K | |
| 90471 | Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine | <1% | 765 | 728 | $9K |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 4,236 | 3,955 | $8K |
| 99396 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, 40-64 years | <1% | 131 | 113 | $7K |
| 96372 | Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular | <1% | 810 | 470 | $5K |
| 90688 | <1% | 140 | 140 | $2K | |
| 99050 | <1% | 145 | 133 | $485.00 |
7 more codes
| 90661 | <1% | 22 | $133.27 | |
| G0008 | Administration of influenza virus vaccine | <1% | 45 | $76.03 |
| J3420 | Injection, vitamin b-12 cyanocobalamin, up to 1000 mcg | <1% | 614 | $59.85 |
| 82948 | <1% | 12 | $24.28 | |
| 1170F | <1% | 62 | $19.00 | |
| G8427 | Eligible clinician attests to documenting in the medical record they obtained, updated, or reviewed the patient's current medications | <1% | 16 | $8.00 |
| 1124F | 0% | 22 | $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.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialCHOUDRY, ABAID (PRESIDENT)