Azar, Nicola

Azar, Nicola was paid $309K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is G0181, Physician or allowed practitioner supervision of a patient receiving medicare-covered services provided by a participating home health agency (patient not present) requiring complex and multidisciplinary care modalities involving regular physician or allowed practitioner development and/or revision of care plans — 76% of everything it billed.

Compared with peers

Next to other Family Medicine Physician providers in California

Rank by total paid#344 of 2,511

Median peer was paid$13K

This provider vs. median24×

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	922	$27K
2019	1,936	$69K
2020	1,601	$59K
2021	1,372	$45K
2022	1,927	$49K
2023	3,124	$46K
2024incomplete	2,525	$13K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
G0181	Physician or allowed practitioner supervision of a patient receiving medicare-covered services provided by a participating home health agency (patient not present) requiring complex and multidisciplinary care modalities involving regular physician or allowed practitioner development and/or revision of care plans	76%	7,662	7,627	$234K
G0179	Physician or allowed practitioner re-certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians and allowed practitioners to affirm the initial implementation of the plan of care	10%	2,502	2,491	$31K
G0180	Physician or allowed practitioner certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians and allowed practitioners to affirm the initial implementation of the plan of care	4.5%	1,223	1,215	$14K
99350	Prolong home eval add 15m	3.0%	170	168	$9K
99205	Prolong outpt/office vis	2.4%	434	434	$7K
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	2.3%	1,194	1,187	$7K
99344		2.0%	222	222	$6K

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.