Physician
O'brien, James
O'brien, James was paid $18K by Medicaid between Aug 2023 and Jun 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 99284, emergency room visit (serious) — 80% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoO'BRIEN, JAMES
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94080
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94080
33aNPI1780143024assigned 03/17/2019
33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician
28Total paid$18K
24GClaims263
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthAug 2023 – Jun 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#541 of 988
Median peer was paid$32K
This provider vs. median0.6×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 110 | $7K | |
| 2024incomplete | 153 | $11K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | 80% | 207 | 181 | $14K |
| 99285 | Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life | 13% | 28 | 27 | $2K |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | 6.1% | 28 | 28 | $1K |
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.