Clinic
Punahele Associates, LLC
Punahele Associates, LLC was paid $164K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 66984, Extracapsular cataract removal with insertion of intraocular lens prosthesis — 94% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPUNAHELE ASSOCIATES, LLC
HILO, HI 96720
HILO, HI 96720
33aNPI1891759601assigned 04/17/2006
33bProvider typeAmbulatory Surgical Clinic/Center
28Total paid$164K
24GClaims1,781
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulatory Surgical Clinic/Center providers in Hawaii
Rank by total paid#9 of 18
Median peer was paid$115K
This provider vs. median1.4×
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 | 310 | $0.00 | |
| 2019 | 304 | $9K | |
| 2020 | 136 | $5K | |
| 2021 | 198 | $0.00 | |
| 2022 | 193 | $6K | |
| 2023 | 304 | $15K | |
| 2024incomplete | 336 | $128K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66984 | Extracapsular cataract removal with insertion of intraocular lens prosthesis | 94% | 163 | 134 | $155K |
| 59841 | 3.3% | 12 | 12 | $5K | |
| L8699 | Prosthetic implant, not otherwise specified | 1.4% | 12 | 12 | $2K |
| V2632 | Posterior chamber intraocular lens | <1% | 225 | 179 | $1K |
| S9999 | Sales tax | 0% | 1,264 | 1,220 | $0.00 |
| G8918 | Patient without preoperative order for iv antibiotic surgical site infection (ssi) prophylaxis | 0% | 24 | 14 | $0.00 |
| G8907 | Patient documented not to have experienced any of the following events: a burn prior to discharge; a fall within the facility; wrong site/side/patient/procedure/implant event; or a hospital transfer or hospital admission upon discharge from the facility | 0% | 58 | 39 | $0.00 |
| 00142 | 0% | 23 | 13 | $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 officialKEKAUOHA, CAROL (ADMINISTRATOR)