Physician
Velaga, Venkateswara
Velaga, Venkateswara was paid $292K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Aug 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is 93306, Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete — 51% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoVELAGA, VENKATESWARA
HOPKINSVILLE, KY 42240
HOPKINSVILLE, KY 42240
33aNPI1740246289assigned 04/25/2006
33bProvider typeCardiovascular Disease Physician
28Total paid$292K
24GClaims4,160
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Aug 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Cardiovascular Disease Physician providers in Kentucky
Rank by total paid#11 of 47
Median peer was paid$23K
This provider vs. median13×
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 | 820 | $54K | |
| 2019 | 821 | $57K | |
| 2020 | 523 | $36K | |
| 2021 | 580 | $43K | |
| 2022 | 778 | $55K | |
| 2023 | 439 | $29K | |
| 2024incomplete | 199 | $18K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93306 | Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete | 51% | 1,122 | 1,005 | $149K |
| 78452 | Myocardial perfusion imaging, tomographic (SPECT); multiple studies at rest and/or stress | 13% | 522 | 461 | $38K |
| 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 | 9.8% | 390 | 360 | $29K |
| 93015 | 8.2% | 420 | 376 | $24K | |
| 99243 | 7.8% | 285 | 272 | $23K | |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 7.7% | 1,142 | 962 | $23K |
| A9500 | Technetium tc-99m sestamibi, diagnostic, per study dose | 1.1% | 50 | 41 | $3K |
| 93000 | <1% | 183 | 165 | $2K | |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | <1% | 34 | 33 | $2K |
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | <1% | 12 | 12 | $280.34 |
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.