Foerster, Bruce

Foerster, Bruce was paid $300K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 57% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoFOERSTER, BRUCE
SAN DIEGO, CA 92119

33aNPI1467593335assigned 02/12/2007

33bProvider typeOrthopaedic Surgery Physician

28Total paid$300K

24GClaims4,209

24DCodes billed8

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Orthopaedic Surgery Physician providers in California

Rank by total paid#64 of 292

Median peer was paid$24K

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

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	164	$10K
2019	428	$31K
2020	505	$35K
2021	1,055	$79K
2022	985	$73K
2023	713	$49K
2024incomplete	359	$23K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity	57%	2,047	1,996	$170K
99203	Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity	21%	542	542	$62K
73110		12%	862	688	$35K
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	4.3%	100	99	$13K
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	2.7%	51	51	$8K
73140		2.7%	213	179	$8K
J0702	Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg	1.0%	377	372	$3K
73130		<1%	17	12	$633.25

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.