Physician
Christopher W Chu MD, INC
Christopher W Chu MD, INC was paid $5.08M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 31 billing codes. Its largest line is 99232, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day — 32% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCHRISTOPHER W CHU MD, INC
LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
33aNPI1770965758assigned 06/25/2015
33bProvider typeCardiovascular Disease Physician
28Total paid$5.08M
24GClaims124,949
24DCodes billed31
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Cardiovascular Disease Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#13 of 714
Median peer was paid$28K
This provider vs. median179×
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 | 12,818 | $362K | |
| 2019 | 16,225 | $771K | |
| 2020 | 15,748 | $661K | |
| 2021 | 18,683 | $776K | |
| 2022 | 17,879 | $888K | |
| 2023 | 17,910 | $880K | |
| 2024incomplete | 25,686 | $737K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 32% | 55,492 | 12,196 | $1.63M |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 15% | 7,110 | 7,055 | $780K |
| 93306 | Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete | 12% | 10,803 | 10,717 | $629K |
| 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 | 12% | 11,136 | 10,987 | $615K |
| 93351 | 6.6% | 1,886 | 1,882 | $335K | |
| 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 | 4.6% | 2,792 | 2,791 | $233K |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 3.9% | 5,067 | 4,983 | $198K |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 3.3% | 4,009 | 2,041 | $167K |
| 93000 | 1.9% | 6,433 | 6,424 | $97K | |
| 99356 | 1.8% | 1,419 | 1,415 | $91K | |
| 93320 | 1.5% | 1,893 | 1,889 | $77K | |
| 93010 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | 1.3% | 12,122 | 11,076 | $67K |
19 more codes
| 93325 | 1.2% | 1,884 | $61K | |
| 99205 | Prolong outpt/office vis | <1% | 193 | $22K |
| 93224 | <1% | 314 | $21K | |
| 99354 | <1% | 369 | $19K | |
| 93015 | <1% | 203 | $7K | |
| 99072 | <1% | 462 | $4K | |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex) | <1% | 62 | $4K |
| 99358 | Prolong nursin fac eval 15m | <1% | 52 | $4K |
| 93018 | <1% | 193 | $3K | |
| 93016 | <1% | 219 | $3K | |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine) | <1% | 49 | $3K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) | <1% | 33 | $748.06 |
| 99309 | Subsequent nursing facility care, per day, low to moderate complexity | <1% | 27 | $340.00 |
| A4556 | Electrodes, (e.g., apnea monitor), per pair | <1% | 173 | $110.56 |
| 3079F | 0% | 46 | $0.00 | |
| 3074F | 0% | 145 | $0.00 | |
| 3075F | 0% | 64 | $0.00 | |
| 3078F | 0% | 216 | $0.00 | |
| 3077F | 0% | 83 | $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 officialCHU, CHRISTOPHER (OWNER)