LCMS Surgical Associates of Southwest Lousiana, LLC
LCMS Surgical Associates of Southwest Lousiana, LLC was paid $89K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is 99204, doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved) — 62% of everything it billed.
LAKE CHARLES, LA 70601
Next to other Surgery Physician providers in Louisiana
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 | 182 | $10K | |
| 2019 | 281 | $9K | |
| 2020 | 276 | $6K | |
| 2021 | 717 | $13K | |
| 2022 | 810 | $19K | |
| 2023 | 974 | $21K | |
| 2024incomplete | 233 | $11K |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 62% | 920 | 821 | $55K |
| 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 | 9.6% | 240 | 222 | $9K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 8.6% | 363 | 296 | $8K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 7.9% | 96 | 91 | $7K |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | 5.6% | 131 | 121 | $5K |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 2.2% | 61 | 42 | $2K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 2.0% | 35 | 24 | $2K |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | 1.2% | 17 | 13 | $1K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 1.2% | 29 | 14 | $1K |
| 99024 | 0% | 1,581 | 1,216 | $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
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.