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Pacific Central Coast Health Centers

Pacific Central Coast Health Centers was paid $44K by Medicaid between Apr 2022 and Nov 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 49% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoPACIFIC CENTRAL COAST HEALTH CENTERS
BAKERSFIELD, CA 93311
33aNPI1720752355assigned 08/06/2021
28Total paid$44K
24GClaims688
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthApr 2022 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Community Health Clinic/Center providers in California

Rank by total paid#240 of 288
Median peer was paid$2.15M
This provider vs. median0.0×

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.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official MERLO, BRANDON controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$2.0K$4.0K$6.0K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
202253$4K
2023286$15K
2024incomplete349$24K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity 49% 405 375 $22K
51701 24% 134 134 $11K
52000 11% 40 40 $5K
99203 Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity 10% 56 56 $4K
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 2.2% 13 13 $959.18
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 1.7% 15 14 $734.34
51798 1.1% 25 25 $465.71

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 officialMERLO, BRANDON (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER)
Parent organizationPACIFIC CENTRAL COAST HEALTH CENTERS
Same official

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