Cheela, Santhosh

Cheela, Santhosh was paid $267K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 12 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 25% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCHEELA, SANTHOSH
OLD BRIDGE, NJ 08857

33aNPI1730169632assigned 01/18/2006

33bProvider typeGastroenterology Physician

28Total paid$267K

24GClaims6,442

24DCodes billed12

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Gastroenterology Physician providers in New Jersey

Rank by total paid#26 of 150

Median peer was paid$27K

This provider vs. median10×

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	803	$37K
2019	896	$32K
2020	701	$23K
2021	960	$41K
2022	1,099	$49K
2023	1,353	$63K
2024incomplete	630	$22K

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	25%	2,646	2,436	$67K
43239	Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, flexible, transoral; with biopsy, single or multiple	24%	640	603	$64K
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	24%	1,665	1,591	$63K
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	13%	537	518	$34K
99244	Office or other outpatient consultation, moderate to high complexity	5.5%	145	145	$15K
45380	Colonoscopy, flexible; with biopsy, single or multiple	3.1%	72	68	$8K
99232	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	2.8%	410	201	$7K
99203	Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity	2.0%	117	107	$5K
99211	Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, minimal severity	<1%	60	58	$2K
99231	Subsequent hospital care, per day, straightforward or low complexity	<1%	50	26	$427.84
99222	Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	<1%	13	12	$221.80
99000		0%	87	85	$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.