Physician
Sound Physicians Emergency Medicine of Arizona, INC.
Sound Physicians Emergency Medicine of Arizona, INC. was paid $20.85M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 48% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSOUND PHYSICIANS EMERGENCY MEDICINE OF ARIZONA, INC.
NOGALES, AZ 85621
NOGALES, AZ 85621
33aNPI1700328663assigned 11/09/2016
33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician
28Total paid$20.85M
24GClaims281,438
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Arizona
Rank by total paid#4 of 124
Median peer was paid$16K
This provider vs. median1,280×
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 | 38,773 | $2.66M | |
| 2019 | 42,380 | $2.88M | |
| 2020 | 35,452 | $2.30M | |
| 2021 | 44,380 | $3.29M | |
| 2022 | 50,791 | $4.02M | |
| 2023 | 42,678 | $3.43M | |
| 2024incomplete | 26,984 | $2.28M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99285 | Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life | 48% | 103,288 | 93,809 | $10.10M |
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | 41% | 114,466 | 105,366 | $8.52M |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | 9.3% | 41,206 | 39,175 | $1.93M |
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | 1.1% | 1,805 | 1,660 | $233K |
| 93010 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | <1% | 10,890 | 9,874 | $59K |
| 99053 | <1% | 9,569 | 8,982 | $8K | |
| 11042 | Debridement, subcutaneous tissue (includes epidermis, dermis, and subcutaneous tissue); first 20 sq cm | <1% | 187 | 78 | $4K |
| 99282 | Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity | <1% | 27 | 25 | $686.70 |
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 officialCUMPTON, AMY (ENROLLMENT SPECIALIST)