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Houston Pediatric Specialty Group PLLC

Houston Pediatric Specialty Group PLLC was paid $710K by Medicaid between Jan 2020 and Dec 2024, across 22 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 40% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoHOUSTON PEDIATRIC SPECIALTY GROUP PLLC
HOUSTON, TX 77054
33aNPI1609047687assigned 03/18/2008
28Total paid$710K
24GClaims12,156
24DCodes billed22
24AFirst – last monthJan 2020 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Pediatric Pulmonology Physician providers in Texas

Rank by total paid#1 of 11
Median peer was paid$94K
This provider vs. median7.5×

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 WADLINGTON, NICHOLAS controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$20K$40K2018201920202021202220232024
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
20201,044$64K
20214,137$238K
20222,568$161K
20232,544$153K
2024incomplete1,863$94K
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 40% 5,947 5,358 $282K
99244 Office or other outpatient consultation, moderate to high complexity 19% 1,127 1,016 $133K
99215 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis 11% 1,094 1,026 $79K
99243 6.0% 543 513 $43K
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity 3.7% 919 804 $26K
99203 Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity 3.4% 493 455 $24K
54150 3.3% 402 348 $24K
54161 2.7% 137 127 $19K
99221 2.7% 385 332 $19K
99204 Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, moderate complexity 2.4% 195 186 $17K
99245 2.1% 103 90 $15K
43239 Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, flexible, transoral; with biopsy, single or multiple 1.4% 79 73 $10K
10 more codes
94375 1.3% 354 $10K
99205 Prolong outpt/office vis <1% 42 $5K
99254 <1% 12 $2K
94010 <1% 62 $1K
93303 Transthoracic echocardiography for congenital cardiac anomalies, follow-up or limited study <1% 12 $576.50
99251 <1% 12 $483.21
93320 <1% 12 $143.12
93325 <1% 12 $49.98
G0447 Face-to-face behavioral counseling for obesity, 15 minutes 0% 133 $0.00
99024 0% 81 $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

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Authorized officialWADLINGTON, NICHOLAS (GROUP VICE PRESIDENT)
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