Medicaid Provider SpendingClaims paid 2018–2024 · HHS public file
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Long Beach - Lakewood Orthopedic Institute

Long Beach - Lakewood Orthopedic Institute was paid $546K by Medicaid between Jun 2018 and Oct 2024, across 15 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 56% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoLONG BEACH - LAKEWOOD ORTHOPEDIC INSTITUTE
LAKEWOOD, CA 90712
33aNPI1710020755assigned 02/15/2007
28Total paid$546K
24GClaims7,418
24DCodes billed15
24AFirst – last monthJun 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Orthopaedic Surgery Physician providers in California

Rank by total paid#46 of 292
Median peer was paid$24K
This provider vs. median23×

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

$0$10K$20K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
201882$6K
2019574$47K
2020748$55K
2021911$73K
20221,299$116K
20232,307$160K
2024incomplete1,497$89K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
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 56% 3,742 3,588 $304K
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 30% 1,446 1,435 $163K
20610 7.1% 613 570 $39K
73130 1.8% 309 258 $10K
20605 1.7% 201 166 $9K
73560 1.7% 343 276 $9K
J0702 Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg <1% 198 181 $3K
99203 Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity <1% 56 53 $2K
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity <1% 39 38 $2K
J3301 Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg <1% 357 355 $2K
73562 <1% 31 27 $817.59
72114 <1% 14 14 $653.12
3 more codes
73110 <1% 13 $397.76
73120 <1% 17 $308.37
J1030 Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg <1% 39 $249.65

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 officialWASSEF, EZZAT (GENERAL PARTNER)