Medicaid Provider SpendingClaims paid 2018–2024 · HHS public file
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Nguyen, Ken

Nguyen, Ken was paid $13K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2022, across 12 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 99% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoNGUYEN, KEN
LAKE CHARLES, LA 70605
33aNPI1922209055assigned 05/29/2007
28Total paid$13K
24GClaims6,759
24DCodes billed12
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2022
Compared with peers

Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Louisiana

Rank by total paid#172 of 290
Median peer was paid$27K
This provider vs. median0.5×

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$2.0K$4.0K2018201920202021202220232024
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
20181,903$4K
20192,196$5K
20201,256$2K
2021986$2K
2022418$1K
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 99% 4,969 4,240 $13K
95930 <1% 25 24 $108.72
96138 <1% 25 24 $12.37
96132 <1% 25 24 $12.26
96139 <1% 24 24 $8.58
G0483 Drug test(s), definitive, utilizing (1) drug identification methods able to identify individual drugs and distinguish between structural isomers (but not necessarily stereoisomers), including, but not limited to gc/ms (any type, single or tandem) and lc/ms (any type, single or tandem and excluding immunoassays (e.g., ia, eia, elisa, emit, fpia) and enzymatic methods (e.g., alcohol dehydrogenase)), (2) stable isotope or other universally recognized internal standards in all samples (e.g., to control for matrix effects, interferences and variations in signal strength), and (3) method or drug-specific calibration and matrix-matched quality control material (e.g., to control for instrument variations and mass spectral drift); qualitative or quantitative, all sources, includes specimen validity testing, per day; 22 or more drug class(es), including metabolite(s) if performed 0% 1,250 1,139 $0.00
92653 0% 25 24 $0.00
95957 0% 25 24 $0.00
95816 0% 25 24 $0.00
99354 0% 12 12 $0.00
36415 Collection of venous blood by venipuncture 0% 330 293 $0.00
93040 0% 24 24 $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.