Physician
Cruz, Lucita
Cruz, Lucita was paid $22K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 50% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCRUZ, LUCITA
NORWALK, CA 90650
NORWALK, CA 90650
33aNPI1770526477assigned 06/13/2006
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$22K
24GClaims3,776
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#1,154 of 2,679
Median peer was paid$13K
This provider vs. median1.7×
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 | 874 | $4.76 | |
| 2019 | 1,432 | $670.00 | |
| 2020 | 132 | $650.00 | |
| 2021 | 657 | $4K | |
| 2022 | 298 | $5K | |
| 2023 | 248 | $8K | |
| 2024incomplete | 135 | $4K |
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 | 50% | 640 | 604 | $11K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 48% | 521 | 490 | $10K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 1.8% | 203 | 190 | $390.00 |
| 3008F | 0% | 1,063 | 992 | $0.00 | |
| 3074F | 0% | 586 | 548 | $0.00 | |
| 3079F | 0% | 60 | 57 | $0.00 | |
| 90471 | Immunization administration (includes percutaneous, intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections), 1 vaccine | 0% | 14 | 14 | $0.00 |
| 3078F | 0% | 689 | 647 | $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.