Columbia Emergency Medical Group INC

Columbia Emergency Medical Group INC was paid $18.96M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 17 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 42% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCOLUMBIA EMERGENCY MEDICAL GROUP INC
LONG BEACH, CA 90806

33aNPI1871551119assigned 05/03/2006

33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician

28Total paid$18.96M

24GClaims376,130

24DCodes billed17

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in California

Rank by total paid#16 of 988

Median peer was paid$32K

This provider vs. median598×

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
2018	54,357	$2.17M
2019	62,031	$3.12M
2020	45,801	$2.40M
2021	52,017	$2.72M
2022	52,372	$2.77M
2023	59,791	$3.30M
2024incomplete	49,761	$2.49M

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	42%	104,951	103,431	$7.97M
99284	Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity	34%	135,399	133,636	$6.54M
99283	Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity	13%	72,389	71,498	$2.40M
99291	Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes	8.1%	14,298	14,126	$1.54M
93010	Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only	2.1%	40,473	37,755	$391K
99223	Prolong inpt eval add15 m	<1%	1,796	1,774	$78K
93042		<1%	5,124	5,068	$29K
99220		<1%	108	108	$7K
99222	Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	<1%	97	97	$5K
99053		<1%	695	690	$2K
99282	Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, low to moderate severity	<1%	65	65	$1K
29125		<1%	12	12	$404.88

5 more codes

99292		<1%	14	$290.41
99281	Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, self-limited or minor	<1%	12	$216.49
G9744	Patient not eligible due to active diagnosis of hypertension	0%	667	$0.00
G8783	Normal blood pressure reading documented, follow-up not required	0%	15	$0.00
G9745	Documented reason for not screening or recommending a follow-up for high blood pressure	0%	15	$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 officialARGUIJA, ANTHONY (AUTHORIZED OFFICIAL)