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Associates in Kidney Care PLC

Associates in Kidney Care PLC was paid $449K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2024, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is 99232, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day — 61% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoASSOCIATES IN KIDNEY CARE PLC
DES MOINES, IA 50314
33aNPI1629021050assigned 05/18/2006
33bProvider typeNephrology Physician
28Total paid$449K
24GClaims16,675
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Nephrology Physician providers in Iowa

Rank by total paid#2 of 9
Median peer was paid$53K
This provider vs. median8.5×

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 SMITH, ROBERT controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
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
20183,048$71K
20193,007$79K
20202,338$66K
20212,915$89K
20223,145$79K
20231,811$54K
2024incomplete411$11K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99232 Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity 61% 10,565 4,430 $276K
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 18% 3,054 2,708 $80K
90960 End-stage renal disease related services monthly, for patients 20 years and older, with 4 or more face-to-face visits 9.3% 1,229 1,116 $42K
90961 6.3% 660 608 $28K
99231 Subsequent hospital care, per day, straightforward or low complexity 3.6% 1,012 572 $16K
99222 Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity 1.1% 110 104 $5K
99223 Prolong inpt eval add15 m <1% 14 13 $1K
90962 <1% 17 15 $589.32
99215 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis <1% 14 12 $576.65

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 officialSMITH, ROBERT (PARTNER)
Same official

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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.