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Niceto Lopez, M.D., A.P.C.

Niceto Lopez, M.D., A.P.C. was paid $351K by Medicaid between Feb 2020 and Nov 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 99309, Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, low to moderate complexity — 83% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoNICETO LOPEZ, M.D., A.P.C.
SANTA MONICA, CA 90404
33aNPI1710518881assigned 01/28/2020
28Total paid$351K
24GClaims14,066
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthFeb 2020 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in California

Rank by total paid#301 of 2,679
Median peer was paid$13K
This provider vs. median28×

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$5.0K$10K$15K2018201920202021202220232024
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
2020909$30K
20212,803$94K
20222,427$85K
20232,031$65K
2024incomplete5,896$77K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99309 Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, low to moderate complexity 83% 10,496 4,501 $291K
99308 Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, straightforward 8.2% 2,881 985 $29K
99306 Prolong nursin fac eval 15m 6.9% 428 416 $24K
99358 Prolong nursin fac eval 15m 1.3% 192 179 $4K
99316 <1% 43 42 $1K
99315 <1% 13 12 $457.38
99310 Prolong nursin fac eval 15m <1% 13 12 $360.36

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 officialLOPEZ, NICETO (M.D.)