Sunterra Health, INC.

Sunterra Health, INC. was paid $71.43M by Medicaid between Nov 2022 and Dec 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is S9977, Meals, per diem, not otherwise specified — 95% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSUNTERRA HEALTH, INC.
COSTA MESA, CA 92627

33aNPI1619624616assigned 03/09/2022

33bProvider typeHome Delivered Meals

28Total paid$71.43M

24GClaims1,388,002

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthNov 2022 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Home Delivered Meals providers in California

Rank by total paid#1 of 11

Median peer was paid$1.22M

This provider vs. median59×

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.

Single-Code Concentration95% of spending on code S9977 with only 3 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.

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
2022	4,339	$233K
2023	424,129	$23.79M
2024incomplete	959,534	$47.41M

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
S9977	Meals, per diem, not otherwise specified	95%	1,273,679	395,371	$67.87M
S9470	Nutritional counseling, dietitian visit	5.0%	113,592	113,139	$3.54M
S5170	Home delivered meals, including preparation; per meal	<1%	731	387	$23K

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 officialBRAZEEL, STEPHEN (PRESIDENT)