Southern Medical Development

Southern Medical Development was paid $20K by Medicaid between Sep 2018 and May 2021, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 99239, Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes — 87% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSOUTHERN MEDICAL DEVELOPMENT
COVINGTON, LA 70433

33aNPI1619970001assigned 05/31/2005

33bProvider typeNeonatal-Perinatal Medicine Physician

28Total paid$20K

24GClaims298

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthSep 2018 – May 2021

Compared with peers

Next to other Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Physician providers in Louisiana

Rank by total paid#11 of 13

Median peer was paid$252K

This provider vs. median0.1×

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	25	$2K
2019	54	$4K
2020	193	$12K
2021	26	$2K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99239	Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes	87%	234	221	$17K
99460		11%	51	48	$2K
99462		1.6%	13	12	$324.74

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 officialSUAREZ, ALBERTO (OWNER)