Physician
Lungcenter, INC.
Lungcenter, INC. was paid $270K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 61% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLUNGCENTER, INC.
GLEN DALE, WV 26038
GLEN DALE, WV 26038
33aNPI1740491315assigned 05/25/2007
33bProvider typePulmonary Disease Physician
28Total paid$270K
24GClaims8,052
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Pulmonary Disease Physician providers in West Virginia
Rank by total paid#8 of 17
Median peer was paid$210K
This provider vs. median1.3×
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 | 806 | $47K | |
| 2019 | 1,309 | $31K | |
| 2020 | 1,479 | $65K | |
| 2021 | 1,550 | $41K | |
| 2022 | 1,508 | $38K | |
| 2023 | 832 | $22K | |
| 2024incomplete | 568 | $25K |
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 | 61% | 5,220 | 4,866 | $166K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 19% | 1,855 | 713 | $51K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 7.3% | 372 | 329 | $20K |
| 95810 | Polysomnography; sleep staging with 4 or more additional parameters | 6.6% | 41 | 29 | $18K |
| 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 | 2.4% | 120 | 111 | $6K |
| 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% | 95 | 94 | $5K |
| 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 | <1% | 24 | 24 | $2K |
| 94010 | <1% | 175 | 126 | $2K | |
| 94727 | <1% | 69 | 66 | $282.74 | |
| 94729 | <1% | 69 | 66 | $230.29 | |
| G0180 | Physician or allowed practitioner certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians and allowed practitioners to affirm the initial implementation of the plan of care | <1% | 12 | 12 | $20.48 |
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 officialSALUDES, MELVIN (OWNER)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Medstrat | Glen Dale, WV | $24K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.