Physician
Premier Hospitalists of Bakersfield INC
Premier Hospitalists of Bakersfield INC was paid $9.72M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is 99232, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day — 30% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPREMIER HOSPITALISTS OF BAKERSFIELD INC
BAKERSFIELD, CA 93301
BAKERSFIELD, CA 93301
33aNPI1770525016assigned 06/12/2006
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$9.72M
24GClaims129,598
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#13 of 2,679
Median peer was paid$13K
This provider vs. median771×
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 | 15,567 | $1.07M | |
| 2019 | 18,881 | $1.44M | |
| 2020 | 19,646 | $1.54M | |
| 2021 | 18,605 | $1.38M | |
| 2022 | 14,595 | $1.31M | |
| 2023 | 21,862 | $1.73M | |
| 2024incomplete | 20,442 | $1.26M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 30% | 55,506 | 20,149 | $2.94M |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 19% | 14,298 | 14,010 | $1.86M |
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | 17% | 11,392 | 3,902 | $1.67M |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 13% | 13,548 | 13,269 | $1.30M |
| 99238 | Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | 11% | 23,280 | 22,613 | $1.08M |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 7.6% | 9,651 | 5,194 | $738K |
| 99239 | Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes | 1.3% | 1,870 | 1,857 | $123K |
| 99220 | <1% | 13 | 13 | $2K | |
| 99235 | <1% | 14 | 14 | $2K | |
| 99217 | <1% | 12 | 12 | $669.90 | |
| 36556 | <1% | 14 | 13 | $570.32 |
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 officialLAUGHLIN, ROBERT (PRESIDENT)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Robert L Laughlin MD INC | Bakersfield, CA | $153K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.