Physician
Alpha Hospitalist Group INC
Alpha Hospitalist Group INC was paid $189K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 13 billing codes. Its largest line is 99233, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) — 36% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoALPHA HOSPITALIST GROUP INC
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA 92708
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA 92708
33aNPI1982086914assigned 06/25/2015
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$189K
24GClaims20,358
24DCodes billed13
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#468 of 2,679
Median peer was paid$13K
This provider vs. median15×
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 | 914 | $49K | |
| 2019 | 891 | $33K | |
| 2020 | 4,337 | $64K | |
| 2021 | 4,840 | $18K | |
| 2022 | 6,226 | $13K | |
| 2023 | 2,744 | $6K | |
| 2024incomplete | 406 | $6K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 36% | 9,027 | 2,969 | $69K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 33% | 4,063 | 3,892 | $62K |
| 99239 | Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes | 13% | 2,564 | 2,483 | $24K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 8.4% | 789 | 237 | $16K |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 3.5% | 171 | 170 | $7K |
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | 3.5% | 2,193 | 720 | $7K |
| G0316 | Prolonged hospital inpatient or observation care evaluation and management service(s) beyond the total time for the primary service (when the primary service has been selected using time on the date of the primary service); each additional 15 minutes by the physician or qualified healthcare professional, with or without direct patient contact (list separately in addition to cpt codes 99223, 99233, and 99236 for hospital inpatient or observation care evaluation and management services). (do not report g0316 on the same date of service as other prolonged services for evaluation and management 99358, 99359, 99418, 99415, 99416). (do not report g0316 for any time unit less than 15 minutes) | 1.7% | 133 | 129 | $3K |
| 99497 | <1% | 443 | 346 | $682.81 | |
| 99238 | Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | <1% | 27 | 27 | $601.60 |
| 99309 | Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, low to moderate complexity | <1% | 665 | 399 | $405.54 |
| 99356 | <1% | 114 | 112 | $168.48 | |
| 99308 | Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, straightforward | <1% | 156 | 78 | $157.77 |
1 more codes
| 99304 | 0% | 13 | $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
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