James Lesher MD

James Lesher MD was paid $71K by Medicaid between Mar 2021 and Oct 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 99291, Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes — 60% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoJAMES LESHER MD
CASTRO VALLEY, CA 94546

33aNPI1821600537assigned 08/24/2020

33bProvider typeSurgery Physician

28Total paid$71K

24GClaims1,527

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthMar 2021 – Oct 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Surgery Physician providers in California

Rank by total paid#140 of 437

Median peer was paid$23K

This provider vs. median3.1×

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
2021	364	$15K
2022	329	$14K
2023	521	$27K
2024incomplete	313	$15K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99291	Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes	60%	467	299	$43K
99232	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	39%	1,047	620	$27K
99292		1.2%	13	13	$870.00

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 officialLESHER, JAMES (OWNER)