Physician
Bhuta, Mahesh
Bhuta, Mahesh was paid $17K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 17 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 56% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBHUTA, MAHESH
LOS ANGELES, CA 90034
LOS ANGELES, CA 90034
33aNPI1649305475assigned 02/22/2007
33bProvider typeAddiction Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician
28Total paid$17K
24GClaims11,331
24DCodes billed17
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Addiction Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#9 of 16
Median peer was paid$17K
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 | 957 | $2K | |
| 2019 | 1,127 | $8K | |
| 2020 | 757 | $574.27 | |
| 2021 | 2,528 | $3K | |
| 2022 | 2,619 | $2K | |
| 2023 | 1,643 | $609.12 | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,700 | $1K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 56% | 3,162 | 2,987 | $9K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 13% | 74 | 14 | $2K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 8.2% | 13 | 13 | $1K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 6.7% | 511 | 511 | $1K |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | 4.3% | 216 | 216 | $714.31 |
| 99072 | 3.8% | 1,469 | 1,399 | $631.66 | |
| 3008F | 2.6% | 1,936 | 1,863 | $442.99 | |
| 99442 | 1.6% | 152 | 152 | $276.88 | |
| 99441 | 1.2% | 262 | 252 | $203.35 | |
| 3078F | 1.2% | 1,346 | 1,311 | $202.86 | |
| 1160F | <1% | 143 | 139 | $83.73 | |
| 99204 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, moderate complexity | <1% | 147 | 147 | $62.01 |
5 more codes
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.