Thrifty Payless INC
Thrifty Payless INC was paid $1K by Medicaid between Feb 2018 and Oct 2023, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is A4253, Blood glucose test or reagent strips for home blood glucose monitor, per 50 strips — 100% of everything it billed.
ARROYO GRANDE, CA 93420
Next to other Durable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies providers in California
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.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
Paid by month
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 67 | $455.94 | |
| 2019 | 51 | $58.23 | |
| 2020 | 95 | $246.25 | |
| 2021 | 268 | $188.03 | |
| 2022 | 116 | $0.00 | |
| 2023 | 66 | $169.73 |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A4253 | Blood glucose test or reagent strips for home blood glucose monitor, per 50 strips | 100% | 161 | 157 | $1K |
| 0002A | 0% | 80 | 80 | $0.00 | |
| G0008 | Administration of influenza virus vaccine | 0% | 233 | 233 | $0.00 |
| 90694 | 0% | 61 | 61 | $0.00 | |
| 0001A | 0% | 102 | 102 | $0.00 | |
| K1034 | Provision of covid-19 test, nonprescription self-administered and self-collected use, fda approved, authorized or cleared, one test count | 0% | 26 | 26 | $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.
Who's on the registration
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Thrifty Payless INC | Delano, CA | $8K |
| Thrifty Payless INC | Lake Isabella, CA | $2K |
| Thrifty Payless INC | El Centro, CA | $787.26 |
| Rite Aid of Michigan INC | Warren, MI | $266.28 |
| Thrifty Payless INC | Burien, WA | $99.84 |
| Thrifty Payless INC | Pacoima, CA | $81.82 |
| Thrifty Payless INC | Eugene, OR | $50.22 |
| Thrifty Payless INC | Brawley, CA | $36.59 |
| Thrifty Payless INC | La Puente, CA | $17.28 |
| Thrifty Payless INC | Aloha, OR | $0.00 |
| Thrifty Payless INC | Hillsboro, OR | $0.00 |
| Rite Aid of Ohio INC | Zanesville, OH | $0.00 |
| Thrifty Payless INC | Saint Helens, OR | $0.00 |
| Thrifty Payless INC | Selma, CA | $0.00 |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.