Desert Group Services, PC
Desert Group Services, PC was paid $86K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and May 2022, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 99239, Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes — 35% of everything it billed.
JOSHUA TREE, CA 92252
Next to other Hospitalist Physician providers in California
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.
Paid by month
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 191 | $7K | |
| 2019 | 641 | $19K | |
| 2020 | 320 | $10K | |
| 2021 | 1,023 | $39K | |
| 2022 | 265 | $11K |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99239 | Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes | 35% | 832 | 816 | $30K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 23% | 333 | 324 | $20K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 23% | 874 | 436 | $19K |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 13% | 208 | 206 | $11K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 4.9% | 130 | 54 | $4K |
| 99221 | <1% | 39 | 37 | $848.94 | |
| 99309 | Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, low to moderate complexity | <1% | 24 | 12 | $833.60 |
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.
Who's on the registration
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.