Physician
Medical Specialist of Acadiana, LLC
Medical Specialist of Acadiana, LLC was paid $610K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 12 billing codes. Its largest line is 99223, Prolong inpt eval add15 m — 39% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMEDICAL SPECIALIST OF ACADIANA, LLC
LAFAYETTE, LA 70508
LAFAYETTE, LA 70508
33aNPI1114350469assigned 08/09/2013
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$610K
24GClaims35,634
24DCodes billed12
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Louisiana
Rank by total paid#37 of 290
Median peer was paid$27K
This provider vs. median23×
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 | 4,069 | $30K | |
| 2019 | 4,526 | $33K | |
| 2020 | 5,039 | $87K | |
| 2021 | 5,608 | $92K | |
| 2022 | 5,580 | $112K | |
| 2023 | 7,096 | $147K | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,716 | $108K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 39% | 3,037 | 2,195 | $238K |
| 93010 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | 22% | 26,433 | 20,097 | $135K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 13% | 1,534 | 735 | $77K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 11% | 2,236 | 758 | $65K |
| 99220 | 5.4% | 493 | 405 | $33K | |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 5.1% | 573 | 437 | $31K |
| 99238 | Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | 2.1% | 491 | 336 | $13K |
| 99239 | Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes | 1.8% | 222 | 183 | $11K |
| 99226 | <1% | 205 | 117 | $4K | |
| 99407 | <1% | 92 | 73 | $944.01 | |
| 99224 | <1% | 88 | 79 | $857.40 | |
| 99217 | 0% | 230 | 178 | $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
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialRAMIREZ-ASTACIO, CESAR (OWNER)