Medicaid Provider SpendingClaims paid 2018–2024 · HHS public file
Home › CA › Bakersfield › NPI 1750319794
Physician

Kern Radiology Medical Group, INC

Kern Radiology Medical Group, INC was paid $284K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jun 2019, across 16 billing codes. Its largest line is 71046, Radiologic examination, chest; 2 views — 34% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoKERN RADIOLOGY MEDICAL GROUP, INC
BAKERSFIELD, CA 93301
33aNPI1750319794assigned 06/29/2006
28Total paid$284K
24GClaims27,218
24DCodes billed16
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jun 2019
Compared with peers

Next to other Diagnostic Radiology Physician providers in California

Rank by total paid#133 of 797
Median peer was paid$6K
This provider vs. median51×

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

$0$20K$40K2018201920202021202220232024
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
201817,947$184K
20199,271$100K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
71046 Radiologic examination, chest; 2 views 34% 11,531 11,378 $98K
71045 Radiologic examination, chest; single view 21% 10,948 8,843 $58K
70450 Computed tomography, head or brain; without contrast material 18% 2,192 1,969 $50K
74177 Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; with contrast material 15% 685 651 $43K
74176 Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; without contrast material 4.5% 256 233 $13K
74018 2.8% 961 753 $8K
77067 Screening mammography, bilateral, including computer-aided detection 2.1% 114 114 $6K
76705 Ultrasound, abdominal, real time with image documentation; limited 1.7% 231 227 $5K
71020 <1% 158 87 $1K
70551 Magnetic resonance imaging, brain; without contrast material <1% 20 14 $990.52
76815 Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, limited <1% 25 25 $516.03
76856 Ultrasound, pelvic (nonobstetric), real time with image documentation; complete <1% 13 13 $370.83
4 more codes
71010 <1% 46 $272.82
78454 <1% 12 $241.24
73562 <1% 13 $96.11
73630 <1% 13 $30.76

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 officialSTURZ, JERRY (CEO)
Same official

Other billing entities under STURZ, JERRY

Full network →
ProviderLocationPaid
Kern Radiology Medical Group, INCBakersfield, CA$38.66M
Kern Radiology Medical Group, INCBakersfield, CA$20K

Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.