Physician
C. George Lai, M.D., INC.
C. George Lai, M.D., INC. was paid $304K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jul 2024, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is 99232, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day — 47% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoC. GEORGE LAI, M.D., INC.
MONTEREY PARK, CA 91754
MONTEREY PARK, CA 91754
33aNPI1023452620assigned 04/25/2013
33bProvider typeGastroenterology Physician
28Total paid$304K
24GClaims18,847
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jul 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Gastroenterology Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#113 of 363
Median peer was paid$55K
This provider vs. median5.6×
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 | 4,050 | $68K | |
| 2019 | 3,377 | $78K | |
| 2020 | 2,108 | $46K | |
| 2021 | 1,517 | $31K | |
| 2022 | 2,757 | $46K | |
| 2023 | 2,497 | $26K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,541 | $9K |
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 | 47% | 12,383 | 2,801 | $144K |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 25% | 2,274 | 2,222 | $76K |
| 43239 | Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, flexible, transoral; with biopsy, single or multiple | 11% | 1,036 | 1,020 | $35K |
| 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 | 9.1% | 1,285 | 1,282 | $28K |
| 45380 | Colonoscopy, flexible; with biopsy, single or multiple | 2.2% | 213 | 213 | $7K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 2.0% | 536 | 516 | $6K |
| 99231 | Subsequent hospital care, per day, straightforward or low complexity | 1.9% | 1,049 | 382 | $6K |
| 45385 | Colonoscopy, flexible; with removal of tumor(s), polyp(s), or other lesion(s) | <1% | 27 | 27 | $3K |
| 99442 | <1% | 44 | 42 | $682.51 |
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 officialLAI, CHIA-CHI (DOCTOR)