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Nicklaus Children's Pediatric Specialists, LLC

Nicklaus Children's Pediatric Specialists, LLC was paid $4.95M by Medicaid between Dec 2018 and Dec 2024, across 13 billing codes. Its largest line is 99232, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day — 38% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoNICKLAUS CHILDREN'S PEDIATRIC SPECIALISTS, LLC
MIAMI, FL 33155
33aNPI1871047712assigned 08/09/2016
33bProvider typeHospitalist Physician
28Total paid$4.95M
24GClaims42,986
24DCodes billed13
24AFirst – last monthDec 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Hospitalist Physician providers in Florida

Rank by total paid#4 of 123
Median peer was paid$32K
This provider vs. median154×

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 MESTRE, MARCOS 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
2018611$93K
20198,080$1.16M
20203,298$400K
20214,798$650K
202211,100$910K
20239,388$984K
2024incomplete5,711$754K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99232 Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity 38% 18,111 9,959 $1.88M
99222 Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity 21% 6,293 5,120 $1.06M
99238 Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less 17% 8,813 7,241 $819K
99219 11% 3,298 2,817 $568K
99217 6.2% 3,368 2,743 $308K
99239 Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes 3.1% 1,168 1,056 $153K
99231 Subsequent hospital care, per day, straightforward or low complexity 1.8% 1,294 686 $88K
99233 Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m <1% 352 190 $43K
99235 <1% 144 113 $23K
99225 <1% 77 71 $7K
99221 <1% 38 33 $6K
99284 Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity <1% 18 18 $3K
1 more codes
99283 Emergency room visit (moderate) <1% 12 $712.81

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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