Physician
Sawelson, Steven
Sawelson, Steven was paid $178K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Aug 2024, across 2 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 — 93% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSAWELSON, STEVEN
TORRANCE, CA 90503
TORRANCE, CA 90503
33aNPI1740354034assigned 11/20/2006
33bProvider typeNephrology Physician
28Total paid$178K
24GClaims898
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Aug 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Nephrology Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#142 of 363
Median peer was paid$80K
This provider vs. median2.2×
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 | 78 | $6K | |
| 2019 | 66 | $9K | |
| 2020 | 203 | $34K | |
| 2021 | 172 | $43K | |
| 2022 | 109 | $24K | |
| 2023 | 160 | $43K | |
| 2024incomplete | 110 | $20K |
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 | 93% | 828 | 826 | $165K |
| 90961 | 7.2% | 70 | 70 | $13K |
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.