Advanced Center for Excellence in Spine Surgery

Advanced Center for Excellence in Spine Surgery was paid $26K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2021, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is J7321, Hyaluronan or derivative, hyalgan, supartz or visco-3, for intra-articular injection, per dose — 81% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoADVANCED CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN SPINE SURGERY
CLIFFSIDE PARK, NJ 07010

33aNPI1629225859assigned 08/19/2008

33bProvider typeOrthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Physician

28Total paid$26K

24GClaims4,236

24DCodes billed8

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2021

Compared with peers

Next to other Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Physician providers in New Jersey

Rank by total paid#3 of 7

Median peer was paid$25K

This provider vs. median1.0×

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	2,198	$13K
2019	1,596	$12K
2020	297	$1K
2021	145	$172.98

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
J7321	Hyaluronan or derivative, hyalgan, supartz or visco-3, for intra-articular injection, per dose	81%	1,327	589	$21K
20611		8.8%	1,573	710	$2K
76881		4.8%	401	358	$1K
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity	3.2%	547	492	$841.95
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	<1%	296	256	$215.55
99212	Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward	<1%	55	53	$170.82
73562		<1%	21	12	$75.00
99441		<1%	16	16	$5.44

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 officialBARUCH, HOWARD (PRESIDENT)

Same official

Other billing entities under BARUCH, HOWARD

Full network →

Provider	Location	Paid
Premier Orthopaedics &Sports Medicine,pc	Cliffside Park, NJ	$3.95M
Hand & Trauma Institute	Cliffside Park, NJ	$226.00

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