Physician
Vep MLK Emergency Medical Group INC
Vep MLK Emergency Medical Group INC was paid $30.94M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 33 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 52% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoVEP MLK EMERGENCY MEDICAL GROUP INC
LOS ANGELES, CA 90059
LOS ANGELES, CA 90059
33aNPI1841679289assigned 05/19/2015
33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician
28Total paid$30.94M
24GClaims489,625
24DCodes billed33
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#7 of 988
Median peer was paid$32K
This provider vs. median975×
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 MARON, STEVEN controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 58,210 | $3.26M | |
| 2019 | 71,225 | $4.57M | |
| 2020 | 54,855 | $3.55M | |
| 2021 | 59,052 | $3.79M | |
| 2022 | 73,181 | $4.69M | |
| 2023 | 90,842 | $6.28M | |
| 2024incomplete | 82,260 | $4.79M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99285 | Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life | 52% | 200,311 | 192,973 | $16.09M |
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | 25% | 151,494 | 148,096 | $7.75M |
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | 12% | 32,431 | 31,681 | $3.60M |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | 9.2% | 81,413 | 79,555 | $2.84M |
| 99236 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | <1% | 1,722 | 1,689 | $167K |
| 0450 | Emergency room services | <1% | 509 | 474 | $84K |
| 10061 | <1% | 1,342 | 1,251 | $83K | |
| 93042 | <1% | 7,239 | 7,004 | $76K | |
| 99406 | <1% | 7,615 | 7,333 | $69K | |
| 99220 | <1% | 1,102 | 1,041 | $60K | |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 702 | 702 | $57K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 366 | 332 | $18K |
21 more codes
| 99282 | Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity | <1% | 565 | $12K |
| 12002 | <1% | 184 | $9K | |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) | <1% | 343 | $8K |
| 99281 | Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, self-limited or minor | <1% | 369 | $8K |
| 12001 | <1% | 74 | $3K | |
| 99217 | <1% | 293 | $2K | |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | <1% | 124 | $1K |
| 80048 | Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) | <1% | 84 | $1K |
| 29515 | <1% | 13 | $772.14 | |
| 93005 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; tracing only, without interpretation and report | <1% | 12 | $598.36 |
| 81001 | <1% | 16 | $317.22 | |
| 99053 | <1% | 576 | $297.15 | |
| 93010 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | <1% | 13 | $123.84 |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 14 | $91.56 |
| 0270 | <1% | 34 | $32.77 | |
| 80076 | <1% | 15 | $6.38 | |
| 83690 | <1% | 13 | $6.08 | |
| 85610 | <1% | 12 | $3.49 | |
| G9744 | Patient not eligible due to active diagnosis of hypertension | 0% | 491 | $0.00 |
| 0250 | 0% | 77 | $0.00 | |
| G9745 | Documented reason for not screening or recommending a follow-up for high blood pressure | 0% | 57 | $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 officialMARON, STEVEN (PRESIDENT)
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