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Sierra Estrellas Emergency Physicians LLC

Sierra Estrellas Emergency Physicians LLC was paid $9.66M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 65% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSIERRA ESTRELLAS EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS LLC
YUMA, AZ 85364
33aNPI1578001319assigned 01/31/2017
28Total paid$9.66M
24GClaims123,508
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Arizona

Rank by total paid#10 of 124
Median peer was paid$16K
This provider vs. median593×

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.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official KENNEDY, CHRISTOPHER controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$100K$200K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
201822,201$1.70M
201914,157$887K
202011,814$879K
202116,400$1.33M
202220,057$1.57M
202320,173$1.71M
2024incomplete18,706$1.58M
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99285 Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life 65% 64,781 59,382 $6.30M
99284 Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity 23% 27,383 25,563 $2.22M
99283 Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity 10.0% 20,225 18,594 $963K
99291 Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes 1.6% 1,300 1,201 $150K
93010 Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only <1% 6,632 6,152 $20K
93042 <1% 2,055 1,876 $8K
99053 <1% 1,083 1,035 $1K
99282 Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity <1% 49 36 $1K

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 officialKENNEDY, CHRISTOPHER (AUTHORIZED OFFICIAL)
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