South Texas Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates

South Texas Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates was paid $137K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 12 billing codes. Its largest line is 99232, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day — 52% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSOUTH TEXAS PULMONARY AND CRITICAL CARE ASSOCIATES
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX 78404

33aNPI1639113368assigned 06/15/2006

33bProvider typePulmonary Disease Physician

28Total paid$137K

24GClaims8,038

24DCodes billed12

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Pulmonary Disease Physician providers in Texas

Rank by total paid#15 of 92

Median peer was paid$8K

This provider vs. median16×

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	762	$2K
2019	941	$3K
2020	528	$4K
2021	1,250	$30K
2022	2,021	$37K
2023	1,690	$43K
2024incomplete	846	$18K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99232	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	52%	5,054	1,551	$72K
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	21%	1,169	928	$29K
99233	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m	17%	811	362	$23K
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity	4.2%	451	435	$6K
99442		1.3%	106	86	$2K
94729		<1%	47	40	$1K
99222	Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	<1%	85	77	$1K
94060		<1%	47	40	$980.41
99223	Prolong inpt eval add15 m	<1%	14	12	$974.18
94726		<1%	27	27	$681.97
94664		<1%	203	184	$76.59
G8839	Sleep apnea symptoms assessed, including presence or absence of snoring and daytime sleepiness	0%	24	24	$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

Who's on the registration

Authorized officialNARANG, RAJEEV (OWNER)