Physician
Desantis Family Practice
Desantis Family Practice was paid $546K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 22 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 44% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDESANTIS FAMILY PRACTICE
HICKORY, NC 28601
HICKORY, NC 28601
33aNPI1568763795assigned 11/04/2010
33bProvider typeFamily Medicine Physician
28Total paid$546K
24GClaims45,117
24DCodes billed22
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Family Medicine Physician providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#241 of 960
Median peer was paid$135K
This provider vs. median4.0×
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 | 915 | $37K | |
| 2019 | 1,346 | $48K | |
| 2020 | 1,637 | $63K | |
| 2021 | 4,486 | $94K | |
| 2022 | 8,384 | $102K | |
| 2023 | 9,537 | $97K | |
| 2024incomplete | 18,812 | $107K |
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 | 44% | 4,104 | 2,914 | $238K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 30% | 3,374 | 2,608 | $166K |
| 99199 | Unlisted special service, procedure or report | 14% | 26,136 | 17,780 | $78K |
| 87428 | 3.0% | 319 | 242 | $17K | |
| 87426 | Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | 2.3% | 412 | 320 | $13K |
| 87430 | 2.0% | 972 | 759 | $11K | |
| 87804 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type | 1.1% | 530 | 371 | $6K |
| 90471 | Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine | <1% | 320 | 240 | $4K |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | <1% | 684 | 503 | $4K |
| 80048 | Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) | <1% | 738 | 538 | $4K |
| 80076 | <1% | 512 | 380 | $3K | |
| 99393 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, late childhood (5-11 years) | <1% | 16 | 12 | $1K |
10 more codes
| 80061 | Lipid panel | <1% | 106 | $858.21 |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 607 | $802.73 |
| 90472 | Immunization administration, each additional vaccine (list separately) | <1% | 29 | $648.10 |
| 84443 | Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) | <1% | 39 | $389.04 |
| 90686 | <1% | 21 | $18.81 | |
| 3074F | <1% | 1,845 | $0.26 | |
| 3078F | <1% | 1,545 | $0.22 | |
| 3008F | <1% | 2,364 | $0.12 | |
| 3079F | <1% | 427 | $0.05 | |
| 99000 | 0% | 17 | $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 officialDESANTIS, MICHAEL (PHYSICIAN)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Christopher Desantis | Hickory, NC | $36K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.