Physician
Socal Thoracic Surgical Associates INC
Socal Thoracic Surgical Associates INC was paid $238K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 99232, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day — 82% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSOCAL THORACIC SURGICAL ASSOCIATES INC
PASADENA, CA 91101
PASADENA, CA 91101
33aNPI1013288463assigned 01/17/2012
33bProvider typeThoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Physician
28Total paid$238K
24GClaims8,871
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#8 of 29
Median peer was paid$6K
This provider vs. median37×
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 | 337 | $8K | |
| 2019 | 748 | $23K | |
| 2020 | 465 | $14K | |
| 2021 | 3,406 | $91K | |
| 2022 | 1,873 | $52K | |
| 2023 | 1,272 | $40K | |
| 2024incomplete | 770 | $11K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 82% | 8,064 | 728 | $195K |
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | 9.6% | 300 | 28 | $23K |
| 71260 | Computed tomography, thorax, diagnostic; with contrast material | 4.8% | 386 | 375 | $11K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 3.4% | 94 | 92 | $8K |
| 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 | <1% | 27 | 27 | $825.52 |
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 officialWU, JAMES (PRESIDENT/OWNER)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| James J Wu Medical Corportaion | Pomona, CA | $2.57M |
| James C Wu MD, INC | Daly City, CA | $88K |
| James Wu MD INC | Hawthorne, CA | $0.00 |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.