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Lachica, Lauren

Lachica, Lauren was paid $225K by Medicaid between Dec 2018 and Aug 2023, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 90834, psychotherapy session, about 45 minutes — 75% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoLACHICA, LAUREN
LOS ANGELES, CA 90011
33aNPI1063769768assigned 08/13/2012
33bProvider typeSocial Worker
28Total paid$225K
24GClaims3,646
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthDec 2018 – Aug 2023
Compared with peers

Next to other Social Worker providers in California

Rank by total paid#15 of 67
Median peer was paid$45K
This provider vs. median5.0×

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

$0$5.0K$10K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
201825$2K
2019528$39K
2020640$36K
2021922$50K
2022913$50K
2023618$48K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
90834 Psychotherapy session, about 45 minutesPsychotherapy, 45 minutes with patient 75% 2,920 2,321 $170K
90791 Psychiatric diagnostic evaluationPsychiatric diagnostic evaluation 23% 607 604 $51K
90832 Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutesPsychotherapy, 30 minutes with patient 2.0% 105 95 $4K
G0071 Payment for communication technology-based services for 5 minutes or more of a virtual (non-face-to-face) communication between an rural health clinic (rhc) or federally qualified health center (fqhc) practitioner and rhc or fqhc patient, or 5 minutes or more of remote evaluation of recorded video and/or images by an rhc or fqhc practitioner, occurring in lieu of an office visit; rhc or fqhc only <1% 14 14 $297.12

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.