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Pacific Central Coast Health Centers

Pacific Central Coast Health Centers was paid $1.58M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 25 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 41% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoPACIFIC CENTRAL COAST HEALTH CENTERS
SANTA MARIA, CA 93454
33aNPI1841548880assigned 08/23/2012
28Total paid$1.58M
24GClaims18,792
24DCodes billed25
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Community Health Clinic/Center providers in California

Rank by total paid#157 of 288
Median peer was paid$2.15M
This provider vs. median0.7×

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$20K$40K$60K2018201920202021202220232024
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
2018411$52K
20191,870$207K
20202,360$234K
20212,772$249K
20223,892$325K
20234,493$302K
2024incomplete2,994$214K
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 41% 7,214 7,097 $647K
93306 Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete 39% 5,913 5,836 $615K
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 12% 1,024 1,015 $184K
93351 2.0% 151 150 $32K
99233 Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m 1.5% 254 93 $23K
99223 Prolong inpt eval add15 m 1.3% 136 124 $21K
93000 1.1% 1,303 1,291 $17K
93224 <1% 204 203 $15K
99232 Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity <1% 120 27 $7K
93320 <1% 126 125 $6K
95816 <1% 69 64 $5K
93793 <1% 1,241 644 $5K
13 more codes
93244 <1% 178 $3K
93242 <1% 168 $2K
93228 <1% 72 $1K
93280 <1% 29 $868.46
93294 <1% 39 $627.66
93297 <1% 25 $207.86
93248 <1% 12 $199.02
99152 <1% 24 $168.53
85610 <1% 89 $69.87
3074F 0% 143 $0.00
3079F 0% 61 $0.00
3075F 0% 39 $0.00
3078F 0% 158 $0.00

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

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