Physician
Joel Lardizabal, MD INC
Joel Lardizabal, MD INC was paid $354K by Medicaid between Oct 2020 and Jun 2022, across 18 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 31% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoJOEL LARDIZABAL, MD INC
SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA 93401
SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA 93401
33aNPI1629619192assigned 10/04/2019
33bProvider typeInterventional Cardiology Physician
28Total paid$354K
24GClaims4,237
24DCodes billed18
24AFirst – last monthOct 2020 – Jun 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Interventional Cardiology Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#26 of 125
Median peer was paid$32K
This provider vs. median11×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 712 | $57K | |
| 2021 | 2,391 | $190K | |
| 2022 | 1,134 | $107K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 31% | 899 | 893 | $111K |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | 29% | 421 | 420 | $104K |
| 93306 | Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete | 27% | 590 | 588 | $95K |
| 78452 | Myocardial perfusion imaging, tomographic (SPECT); multiple studies at rest and/or stress | 2.8% | 25 | 25 | $10K |
| G0442 | Annual alcohol misuse screening, 5 to 15 minutes | 2.7% | 756 | 754 | $10K |
| 93000 | 2.1% | 532 | 515 | $8K | |
| 93224 | 1.1% | 40 | 40 | $4K | |
| 93005 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; tracing only, without interpretation and report | <1% | 586 | 585 | $3K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 13 | 13 | $2K |
| A9500 | Technetium tc-99m sestamibi, diagnostic, per study dose | <1% | 26 | 26 | $2K |
| 93880 | <1% | 12 | 12 | $2K | |
| 93015 | <1% | 25 | 25 | $2K |
6 more codes
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.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialLARDIZABAL, JOEL (MANAGING PHYSICIAN)