Physician
Patel, Tarak
Patel, Tarak was paid $253K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Apr 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 99232, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day — 75% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPATEL, TARAK
AUGUSTA, GA 30909
AUGUSTA, GA 30909
33aNPI1578751871assigned 10/11/2007
33bProvider typeHospitalist Physician
28Total paid$253K
24GClaims16,140
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Apr 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Hospitalist Physician providers in Georgia
Rank by total paid#4 of 22
Median peer was paid$6K
This provider vs. median42×
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 | 3,959 | $52K | |
| 2019 | 3,654 | $50K | |
| 2020 | 2,388 | $29K | |
| 2021 | 1,897 | $27K | |
| 2022 | 2,880 | $54K | |
| 2023 | 1,277 | $38K | |
| 2024incomplete | 85 | $1K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 75% | 12,862 | 1,495 | $190K |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 13% | 1,298 | 976 | $33K |
| 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 | 5.2% | 642 | 409 | $13K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 4.0% | 1,070 | 595 | $10K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 2.6% | 268 | 52 | $6K |
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.