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Barsam, Margaret

Barsam, Margaret was paid $82K by Medicaid between Jan 2019 and Mar 2023, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 61% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBARSAM, MARGARET
CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138
33aNPI1598747412assigned 11/16/2005
33bProvider typePediatrics Physician
28Total paid$82K
24GClaims697
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthJan 2019 – Mar 2023
Compared with peers

Next to other Pediatrics Physician providers in Massachusetts

Rank by total paid#427 of 1,273
Median peer was paid$24K
This provider vs. median3.4×

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

$0$5.0K$10K$15K2018201920202021202220232024
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
2019230$9K
202062$3K
2021224$56K
2022106$8K
202375$6K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
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 61% 149 143 $51K
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity 19% 204 203 $16K
87635 Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe 13% 138 137 $11K
90460 Immunization administration through 18 years of age via any route, first or only component 2.0% 70 31 $2K
90471 Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine 1.9% 51 51 $2K
87428 1.5% 13 13 $1K
87880 Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A <1% 34 33 $459.95
90472 Immunization administration, each additional vaccine (list separately) <1% 12 12 $178.32
96127 <1% 13 13 $153.53
87081 <1% 13 13 $101.28

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.