Physician
Tiyyagura, Lakshma
Tiyyagura, Lakshma was paid $2.71M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 12 billing codes. Its largest line is 45378, Colonoscopy, flexible; diagnostic, including collection of specimen(s) — 23% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoTIYYAGURA, LAKSHMA
STOCKTON, CA 95203
STOCKTON, CA 95203
33aNPI1164527883assigned 09/14/2006
33bProvider typeGastroenterology Physician
28Total paid$2.71M
24GClaims22,133
24DCodes billed12
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Gastroenterology Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#24 of 363
Median peer was paid$55K
This provider vs. median49×
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 | 3,918 | $559K | |
| 2019 | 3,712 | $483K | |
| 2020 | 2,686 | $315K | |
| 2021 | 2,844 | $321K | |
| 2022 | 2,876 | $324K | |
| 2023 | 3,769 | $437K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,328 | $272K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45378 | Colonoscopy, flexible; diagnostic, including collection of specimen(s) | 23% | 1,592 | 1,570 | $618K |
| 43239 | Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, flexible, transoral; with biopsy, single or multiple | 21% | 2,567 | 2,529 | $576K |
| 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 | 18% | 8,581 | 8,265 | $494K |
| 45380 | Colonoscopy, flexible; with biopsy, single or multiple | 14% | 864 | 856 | $375K |
| 99204 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, moderate complexity | 12% | 3,499 | 3,451 | $333K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 4.4% | 1,510 | 1,478 | $121K |
| 99244 | Office or other outpatient consultation, moderate to high complexity | 4.0% | 899 | 898 | $110K |
| 45385 | Colonoscopy, flexible; with removal of tumor(s), polyp(s), or other lesion(s) | 1.5% | 90 | 90 | $39K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | <1% | 2,201 | 2,102 | $26K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | <1% | 158 | 67 | $9K |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | <1% | 94 | 93 | $7K |
| 91200 | <1% | 78 | 78 | $3K |
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.