Physician
Cottage Medical Associates
Cottage Medical Associates was paid $54K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 99222, Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity — 56% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCOTTAGE MEDICAL ASSOCIATES
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105
33aNPI1972669562assigned 12/28/2006
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$54K
24GClaims23,761
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#842 of 2,679
Median peer was paid$13K
This provider vs. median4.3×
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 | 1,984 | $4K | |
| 2019 | 3,258 | $5K | |
| 2020 | 4,821 | $8K | |
| 2021 | 3,903 | $11K | |
| 2022 | 4,537 | $11K | |
| 2023 | 4,046 | $12K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,212 | $3K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 56% | 9,189 | 8,949 | $30K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 33% | 11,694 | 3,124 | $18K |
| 99238 | Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | 10% | 2,878 | 2,824 | $5K |
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 officialHOSEA, STEPHEN (M.D.)