Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health was paid $1.13B by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 37 billing codes. Its largest line is H0019, Behavioral health; long-term residential (non-medical, non-acute care in a residential treatment program where stay is typically longer than 30 days), without room and board, per diem — 49% of everything it billed.

Compared with peers

Next to other Public Health or Welfare Agency providers in California

Rank by total paid#1 of 50

Median peer was paid$311K

This provider vs. median3,616×

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	2,805,754	$106.95M
2019	2,688,799	$144.99M
2020	2,438,700	$169.84M
2021	2,280,454	$182.90M
2022	2,261,967	$193.55M
2023	1,687,102	$201.38M
2024incomplete	836,889	$126.32M

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
H0019	Behavioral health; long-term residential (non-medical, non-acute care in a residential treatment program where stay is typically longer than 30 days), without room and board, per diem	49%	2,884,496	155,197	$553.96M
H0004	Behavioral health counseling and therapy, per 15 minutes	17%	1,572,012	505,021	$188.21M
H0005	Alcohol and/or drug services; group counseling by a clinician	9.6%	1,623,733	203,179	$108.48M
H0020	Alcohol and/or drug services; methadone administration and/or service (provision of the drug by a licensed program)	9.2%	7,020,805	276,149	$103.05M
H0006	Alcohol and/or drug services; case management	7.8%	1,166,081	255,743	$88.02M
H0012	Alcohol and/or drug services; sub-acute detoxification (residential addiction program outpatient)	3.1%	114,832	20,804	$35.13M
H0015	Alcohol and/or drug services; intensive outpatient (treatment program that operates at least 3 hours/day and at least 3 days/week and is based on an individualized treatment plan), including assessment, counseling; crisis intervention, and activity therapies or education	2.6%	470,743	56,311	$28.82M
T1007	Alcohol and/or substance abuse services, treatment plan development and/or modification	<1%	17,834	14,135	$5.34M
T1017	Case management, billed per 15 minutesTargeted case management, each 15 minutes	<1%	38,308	12,000	$4.73M
H0001	Alcohol and/or drug assessment	<1%	8,564	6,803	$4.02M
H2015	Community support for mental illness or disability, per 15 minutesComprehensive community support services, per 15 minutes	<1%	6,758	2,685	$1.20M
H2014	Skills training and development, per 15 minutes	<1%	11,207	2,426	$1.15M

25 more codes

H0050	Alcohol and/or drug services, brief intervention, per 15 minutes	<1%	10,601	$901K
S5000	Prescription drug, generic	<1%	27,384	$836K
H2017	Psychosocial rehabilitation, billed per 15 minutes	<1%	3,026	$678K
H0048	Alcohol and/or other drug testing: collection and handling only, specimens other than blood	<1%	719	$277K
H0025	Behavioral health prevention education service (delivery of services with target population to affect knowledge, attitude and/or behavior)	<1%	11,384	$228K
H0038	Self-help/peer services, per 15 minutes	<1%	1,309	$188K
T1006	Alcohol and/or substance abuse services, family/couple counseling	<1%	836	$151K
H0049	Alcohol and/or drug screening	<1%	1,601	$134K
T1012	Alcohol and/or substance abuse services, skills development	<1%	684	$125K
H2010	Comprehensive medication services, per 15 minutes	<1%	499	$107K
H0033	Oral medication administration, direct observation	<1%	594	$69K
H0034	Medication training and support, per 15 minutes	<1%	188	$57K
H2027	Psychoeducational service, per 15 minutes	<1%	163	$50K
90885		<1%	297	$22K
H0007	Alcohol and/or drug services; crisis intervention (outpatient)	<1%	31	$9K
90889		<1%	45	$5K
90791	Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation	<1%	38	$2K
96160		<1%	63	$307.29
99214	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)	0%	340	$0.00
99202	Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, straightforward	0%	144	$0.00
99205	Prolong outpt/office vis	0%	68	$0.00
G2212	Prolonged office or other outpatient evaluation and management service(s) beyond the maximum required time of the primary procedure which has been selected using total time on the date of the primary service; each additional 15 minutes by the physician or qualified healthcare professional, with or without direct patient contact (list separately in addition to cpt codes 99205, 99215, 99483 for office or other outpatient evaluation and management services) (do not report g2212 on the same date of service as 99358, 99359, 99415, 99416). (do not report g2212 for any time unit less than 15 minutes)	0%	4,077	$0.00
99204	Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)	0%	75	$0.00
99212	Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward	0%	59	$0.00
99215	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)	0%	67	$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.

From NPPES

Who's on the registration

Authorized officialTSAI, GARY (DIRECTOR)

Parent organizationCOUNTY OF LOS ANGELES