Physician
Luke R Watson MD INC
Luke R Watson MD INC was paid $1.42M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 118 billing codes. Its largest line is 88305, Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination — 16% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLUKE R WATSON MD INC
LONG BEACH, CA 90806
LONG BEACH, CA 90806
33aNPI1043384829assigned 11/20/2006
33bProvider typeAnatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician
28Total paid$1.42M
24GClaims847,524
24DCodes billed118
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#31 of 222
Median peer was paid$42K
This provider vs. median33×
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 | 118,321 | $164K | |
| 2019 | 165,669 | $248K | |
| 2020 | 102,070 | $171K | |
| 2021 | 128,261 | $209K | |
| 2022 | 122,446 | $220K | |
| 2023 | 141,293 | $290K | |
| 2024incomplete | 69,464 | $114K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88305 | Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination | 16% | 7,744 | 6,674 | $230K |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | 12% | 104,906 | 67,710 | $175K |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | 10% | 143,502 | 81,338 | $145K |
| 88312 | 5.9% | 3,552 | 3,059 | $84K | |
| 80048 | Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) | 5.0% | 53,635 | 27,535 | $71K |
| 88307 | 3.5% | 1,071 | 1,061 | $49K | |
| 88304 | 3.2% | 3,057 | 2,965 | $46K | |
| 84484 | 3.2% | 33,130 | 26,096 | $45K | |
| 82962 | 2.4% | 11,792 | 3,810 | $34K | |
| 87040 | 2.3% | 13,800 | 12,205 | $32K | |
| 82948 | 2.2% | 36,708 | 12,251 | $32K | |
| 84443 | Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) | 1.8% | 13,233 | 11,856 | $26K |
106 more codes
| 83690 | 1.8% | 30,561 | $25K | |
| 83735 | 1.6% | 22,956 | $23K | |
| 85730 | 1.5% | 24,917 | $21K | |
| 83605 | 1.5% | 14,334 | $21K | |
| 83880 | 1.2% | 4,833 | $17K | |
| 87426 | Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | 1.2% | 2,829 | $17K |
| 87635 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe | 1.1% | 3,267 | $15K |
| 85610 | 1.1% | 27,314 | $15K | |
| 83036 | Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) | <1% | 10,564 | $13K |
| 85060 | <1% | 1,467 | $13K | |
| 81003 | <1% | 32,224 | $12K | |
| 87086 | Culture, bacterial; quantitative colony count, urine | <1% | 12,196 | $11K |
| 86920 | <1% | 1,497 | $11K | |
| 87077 | <1% | 7,707 | $10K | |
| 84100 | <1% | 15,984 | $10K | |
| 80061 | Lipid panel | <1% | 5,615 | $10K |
| 88341 | <1% | 166 | $10K | |
| 88342 | <1% | 326 | $9K | |
| 81001 | <1% | 18,825 | $9K | |
| 83020 | <1% | 5,370 | $8K | |
| 87186 | <1% | 6,294 | $8K | |
| 81025 | <1% | 12,581 | $8K | |
| 87631 | <1% | 1,211 | $8K | |
| 85027 | <1% | 9,099 | $7K | |
| 83718 | <1% | 7,494 | $7K | |
| 80320 | <1% | 6,892 | $7K | |
| 80305 | <1% | 4,001 | $6K | |
| 82140 | <1% | 3,285 | $6K | |
| 87502 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid, influenza virus, for multiple types or subtypes, includes all targets | <1% | 332 | $6K |
| 80202 | <1% | 2,954 | $5K | |
| 82465 | <1% | 8,726 | $5K | |
| 82550 | <1% | 6,198 | $5K | |
| 85007 | <1% | 11,551 | $5K | |
| 84145 | <1% | 1,525 | $5K | |
| 83520 | <1% | 2,624 | $5K | |
| 82553 | <1% | 2,934 | $5K | |
| 84702 | <1% | 3,765 | $5K | |
| 84478 | <1% | 9,246 | $5K | |
| 87081 | <1% | 3,887 | $3K | |
| 86592 | <1% | 5,795 | $3K | |
| 80074 | <1% | 473 | $3K | |
| 80076 | <1% | 3,909 | $3K | |
| 86901 | <1% | 8,273 | $3K | |
| 84703 | <1% | 4,653 | $3K | |
| 88112 | <1% | 120 | $3K | |
| 80164 | <1% | 1,371 | $2K | |
| 86900 | <1% | 5,928 | $2K | |
| 86850 | <1% | 5,027 | $2K | |
| 82746 | <1% | 983 | $2K | |
| 87071 | <1% | 2,400 | $2K | |
| 87070 | <1% | 1,582 | $2K | |
| 81015 | <1% | 5,445 | $2K | |
| 83540 | <1% | 1,508 | $1K | |
| 82728 | <1% | 865 | $1K | |
| 82607 | <1% | 709 | $1K | |
| 88302 | <1% | 82 | $1K | |
| 81005 | <1% | 3,114 | $1K | |
| 87430 | <1% | 1,244 | $1K | |
| 82150 | <1% | 1,203 | $949.84 | |
| 86703 | <1% | 515 | $916.28 | |
| 88311 | <1% | 248 | $913.99 | |
| 85379 | <1% | 805 | $912.08 | |
| 84466 | <1% | 604 | $899.85 | |
| 82803 | <1% | 427 | $872.37 | |
| 87340 | <1% | 694 | $796.93 | |
| 85378 | <1% | 702 | $782.31 | |
| 84439 | <1% | 791 | $774.40 | |
| 87400 | <1% | 1,182 | $755.12 | |
| 85009 | <1% | 1,352 | $700.76 | |
| 83615 | <1% | 958 | $590.25 | |
| 82565 | <1% | 1,039 | $563.84 | |
| 87205 | <1% | 1,058 | $530.29 | |
| 85651 | <1% | 1,178 | $476.28 | |
| 82270 | <1% | 1,062 | $467.39 | |
| 82009 | <1% | 699 | $439.66 | |
| 80329 | <1% | 792 | $420.86 | |
| 80185 | <1% | 246 | $349.89 | |
| 82570 | <1% | 370 | $317.52 | |
| 86803 | <1% | 160 | $271.05 | |
| 85014 | <1% | 554 | $261.10 | |
| 85018 | <1% | 667 | $240.41 | |
| 84134 | <1% | 114 | $207.44 | |
| 88108 | <1% | 15 | $206.89 | |
| 84300 | <1% | 304 | $193.58 | |
| 86709 | <1% | 132 | $178.90 | |
| 86705 | <1% | 131 | $178.60 | |
| 86593 | <1% | 373 | $162.32 | |
| 84550 | <1% | 343 | $151.19 | |
| 86880 | <1% | 213 | $122.93 | |
| 86922 | <1% | 19 | $118.19 | |
| 80307 | Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes; immunoassay | <1% | 29 | $106.32 |
| 85008 | <1% | 673 | $102.62 | |
| 82977 | <1% | 113 | $96.58 | |
| 86769 | <1% | 14 | $92.00 | |
| U0004 | 2019-ncov coronavirus, sars-cov-2/2019-ncov (covid-19), any technique, multiple types or subtypes (includes all targets), non-cdc, making use of high throughput technologies as described by cms-2020-01-r | <1% | 26 | $86.25 |
| 80047 | <1% | 36 | $70.82 | |
| 87073 | <1% | 69 | $59.93 | |
| 82248 | <1% | 113 | $53.57 | |
| 85044 | <1% | 83 | $49.23 | |
| 86141 | <1% | 26 | $39.76 | |
| 83550 | <1% | 31 | $35.49 | |
| 82947 | <1% | 59 | $30.59 | |
| 84132 | <1% | 68 | $23.82 | |
| 80178 | <1% | 18 | $15.01 | |
| 82247 | <1% | 39 | $13.64 | |
| 85384 | <1% | 15 | $12.98 |
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 officialWATSON, LUKE (MED DIRECTOR)