Chitra Safaya MD INC

Chitra Safaya MD INC was paid $195K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 99232, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day — 53% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCHITRA SAFAYA MD INC
LA MESA, CA 91942

33aNPI1649651563assigned 06/16/2015

33bProvider typeInfectious Disease Physician

28Total paid$195K

24GClaims8,156

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Infectious Disease Physician providers in California

Rank by total paid#71 of 222

Median peer was paid$61K

This provider vs. median3.2×

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	875	$23K
2019	459	$9K
2020	820	$15K
2021	1,182	$25K
2022	1,375	$36K
2023	1,875	$47K
2024incomplete	1,570	$40K

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	53%	5,821	1,757	$104K
99233	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m	19%	1,105	470	$38K
99222	Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	16%	796	777	$32K
99223	Prolong inpt eval add15 m	9.5%	406	403	$19K
99255		1.2%	28	26	$2K

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 officialSAFAYA, CHITRA (PRESIDENT)