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Pacific Central Coast Health Centers

Pacific Central Coast Health Centers was paid $146K by Medicaid between Jan 2022 and Oct 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 75% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoPACIFIC CENTRAL COAST HEALTH CENTERS
ARROYO GRANDE, CA 93420
33aNPI1831764117assigned 05/20/2021
28Total paid$146K
24GClaims1,320
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2022 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Community Health Clinic/Center providers in California

Rank by total paid#216 of 288
Median peer was paid$2.15M
This provider vs. median0.1×

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.

Auditor's notes

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

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

Paid by month

$0$5.0K$10K$15K2018201920202021202220232024
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
2022224$31K
2023747$74K
2024incomplete349$41K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99214 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity 75% 1,046 1,023 $109K
99215 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis 18% 193 183 $26K
99205 Prolong outpt/office vis 3.9% 25 25 $6K
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity 2.6% 44 44 $4K
99204 Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, moderate complexity 1.1% 12 12 $2K

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 officialMERLO, BRANDON (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER)
Parent organizationPACIFIC CENTRAL COAST HEALTH CENTERS
Same official

Other billing entities under MERLO, BRANDON

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