Physician
Farough Kerendi MD INC
Farough Kerendi MD INC was paid $641K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 12 billing codes. Its largest line is 99231, Subsequent hospital care, per day, straightforward or low complexity — 59% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFAROUGH KERENDI MD INC
LOS ANGELES, CA 90048
LOS ANGELES, CA 90048
33aNPI1528134558assigned 11/28/2006
33bProvider typeGeneral Practice Physician
28Total paid$641K
24GClaims29,102
24DCodes billed12
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other General Practice Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#42 of 474
Median peer was paid$10K
This provider vs. median62×
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 | 4,385 | $96K | |
| 2019 | 4,688 | $109K | |
| 2020 | 4,667 | $115K | |
| 2021 | 3,045 | $75K | |
| 2022 | 2,306 | $52K | |
| 2023 | 5,937 | $129K | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,074 | $66K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99231 | Subsequent hospital care, per day, straightforward or low complexity | 59% | 19,968 | 4,913 | $379K |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 25% | 3,476 | 3,287 | $160K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 9.3% | 2,414 | 1,771 | $60K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 3.0% | 918 | 575 | $20K |
| 99307 | 2.6% | 1,867 | 1,804 | $17K | |
| 99308 | Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, straightforward | <1% | 156 | 146 | $2K |
| 99348 | <1% | 190 | 188 | $1K | |
| 99239 | Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes | <1% | 41 | 40 | $1K |
| 99305 | <1% | 15 | 15 | $399.33 | |
| 99221 | <1% | 29 | 14 | $379.71 | |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | <1% | 14 | 12 | $344.63 |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | <1% | 14 | 14 | $225.07 |
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 officialKERENDI, FAROUGH (OWNER)