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Goula, Walter

Goula, Walter was paid $204K by Medicaid between Apr 2019 and Sep 2024, across 15 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 65% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoGOULA, WALTER
PROVIDENCE, RI 02904
33aNPI1144285859assigned 04/18/2006
28Total paid$204K
24GClaims4,273
24DCodes billed15
24AFirst – last monthApr 2019 – Sep 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Rhode Island

Rank by total paid#50 of 386
Median peer was paid$15K
This provider vs. median13×

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
2019106$7K
2020674$43K
20211,182$65K
2022934$40K
2023992$36K
2024incomplete385$12K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
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 65% 1,744 1,493 $132K
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity 17% 608 440 $34K
80061 Lipid panel 8.4% 562 544 $17K
80053 Comprehensive metabolic panel 3.1% 142 138 $6K
99395 Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, 18-39 years 2.7% 72 71 $5K
36415 Collection of venous blood by venipuncture 1.1% 214 197 $2K
90471 Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine <1% 112 110 $2K
96127 <1% 344 338 $1K
82306 Vitamin D; 25 hydroxy, includes fraction(s), if performed <1% 15 12 $917.60
96160 <1% 245 244 $835.81
80050 General health panel <1% 13 13 $832.76
G2211 Visit complexity inherent to evaluation and management associated with medical care services that serve as the continuing focal point for all needed health care services and/or with medical care services that are part of ongoing care related to a patient's single, serious condition or a complex condition. (add-on code, list separately in addition to office/outpatient evaluation and management visit, new or established) <1% 35 32 $343.69
3 more codes
83036 Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) <1% 29 $194.71
82962 <1% 14 $31.60
G8510 Screening for depression is documented as negative, a follow-up plan is not required 0% 124 $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.