Kuwahara, Melissa
Kuwahara, Melissa was paid $385K by Medicaid between Sep 2018 and Dec 2024, across 14 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 40% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoKUWAHARA, MELISSA
HILO, HI 96720
HILO, HI 96720
33aNPI1922361203assigned 06/21/2012
33bProvider typeStudent in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program
28Total paid$385K
24GClaims12,801
24DCodes billed14
24AFirst – last monthSep 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program providers in Hawaii
Rank by total paid#1 of 6
Median peer was paid$14K
This provider vs. median27×
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 | 295 | $13K | |
| 2019 | 1,848 | $42K | |
| 2020 | 954 | $16K | |
| 2021 | 1,767 | $32K | |
| 2022 | 2,499 | $81K | |
| 2023 | 2,423 | $92K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,015 | $110K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 40% | 2,978 | 2,528 | $155K |
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | 21% | 2,498 | 2,021 | $81K |
| 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 | 17% | 818 | 735 | $66K |
| G0101 | Cervical or vaginal cancer screening; pelvic and clinical breast examination | 12% | 1,128 | 1,081 | $47K |
| 81025 | 3.4% | 2,008 | 1,859 | $13K | |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | 3.3% | 215 | 202 | $13K |
| 99459 | <1% | 209 | 191 | $3K | |
| 59514 | <1% | 13 | 13 | $3K | |
| 99202 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, straightforward | <1% | 41 | 39 | $2K |
| 96372 | Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection; subcutaneous or intramuscular | <1% | 124 | 109 | $1K |
| Q0091 | Screening papanicolaou smear; obtaining, preparing and conveyance of cervical or vaginal smear to laboratory | <1% | 313 | 285 | $1K |
| 59025 | Fetal non-stress test | <1% | 18 | 12 | $401.40 |
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.