Nephrology Associates of Columbus, P.C.

Nephrology Associates of Columbus, P.C. was paid $610K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 15 billing codes. Its largest line is 90960, End-stage renal disease related services monthly, for patients 20 years and older, with 4 or more face-to-face visits — 46% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoNEPHROLOGY ASSOCIATES OF COLUMBUS, P.C.
COLUMBUS, GA 31904

33aNPI1689767295assigned 10/02/2006

33bProvider typeNephrology Physician

28Total paid$610K

24GClaims33,224

24DCodes billed15

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Nephrology Physician providers in Georgia

Rank by total paid#2 of 27

Median peer was paid$25K

This provider vs. median25×

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	2,946	$75K
2019	3,810	$79K
2020	5,800	$76K
2021	6,734	$120K
2022	6,100	$138K
2023	5,568	$77K
2024incomplete	2,266	$45K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
90960	End-stage renal disease related services monthly, for patients 20 years and older, with 4 or more face-to-face visits	46%	10,204	7,909	$280K
99233	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m	25%	7,667	1,639	$152K
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	12%	2,760	2,361	$74K
99232	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	8.5%	3,004	933	$52K
99291	Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes	7.1%	611	243	$44K
90966		<1%	279	192	$3K
99223	Prolong inpt eval add15 m	<1%	76	51	$3K
99215	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis	<1%	31	26	$1K
81002		<1%	1,144	1,029	$1K
99308	Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, straightforward	<1%	20	19	$351.38
90962		<1%	25	13	$78.42
90935	Hemodialysis procedure with single evaluation by a physician	<1%	24	13	$2.46

3 more codes

G8427	Eligible clinician attests to documenting in the medical record they obtained, updated, or reviewed the patient's current medications	<1%	6,791	$0.19
G8417	Bmi is documented above normal parameters and a follow-up plan is documented	0%	159	$0.00
G9903	Patient screened for tobacco use and identified as a tobacco non-user	0%	429	$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 officialPATEL, MANOJ (PHYSICIAN)

Same official

Other billing entities under PATEL, MANOJ

Full network →

Provider	Location	Paid
Shoremedical5 LLC	Toms River, NJ	$35K

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