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Palomar Hospitalist Medical Group, INC

Palomar Hospitalist Medical Group, INC was paid $2.62M by Medicaid between Aug 2021 and Oct 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 99233, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) — 51% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoPALOMAR HOSPITALIST MEDICAL GROUP, INC
ESCONDIDO, CA 92029
33aNPI1801466826assigned 06/30/2021
33bProvider typeHospitalist Physician
28Total paid$2.62M
24GClaims72,107
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthAug 2021 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Hospitalist Physician providers in California

Rank by total paid#9 of 208
Median peer was paid$20K
This provider vs. median133×

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.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official BELL, MARK controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$50K$100K$150K2018201920202021202220232024
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
20214,000$138K
202216,763$513K
202326,968$1.01M
2024incomplete24,376$957K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99233 Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m 51% 39,325 16,222 $1.33M
99223 Prolong inpt eval add15 m 19% 8,692 8,589 $508K
99239 Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes 18% 11,938 11,728 $461K
99232 Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity 10% 10,604 4,146 $267K
99238 Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less <1% 767 761 $21K
99497 <1% 541 527 $17K
99222 Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity <1% 227 226 $12K
99221 <1% 13 13 $372.85

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.

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Authorized officialBELL, MARK (PRESIDENT)
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