First Step Foot & Ankle, LLC
First Step Foot & Ankle, LLC was paid $419K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is 99203, doctor's office visit, new patient (routine) — 36% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFIRST STEP FOOT & ANKLE, LLC
COVINGTON, LA 70433
COVINGTON, LA 70433
33aNPI1942659081assigned 06/09/2016
33bProvider typePodiatrist
28Total paid$419K
24GClaims10,224
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Podiatrist providers in Louisiana
Rank by total paid#4 of 30
Median peer was paid$32K
This provider vs. median13×
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 | 968 | $31K | |
| 2019 | 1,699 | $68K | |
| 2020 | 1,627 | $61K | |
| 2021 | 1,807 | $78K | |
| 2022 | 1,619 | $69K | |
| 2023 | 1,481 | $67K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,023 | $45K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | 36% | 2,879 | 2,610 | $152K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 35% | 4,120 | 3,656 | $146K |
| 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 | 15% | 1,284 | 1,073 | $63K |
| L3000 | Foot, insert, removable, molded to patient model, 'ucb' type, berkeley shell, each | 5.5% | 141 | 54 | $23K |
| 11721 | 4.0% | 1,208 | 1,049 | $17K | |
| 11750 | 2.0% | 78 | 51 | $8K | |
| 20550 | 1.9% | 269 | 174 | $8K | |
| 99051 | <1% | 185 | 168 | $2K | |
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | <1% | 31 | 30 | $764.74 |
| 99304 | <1% | 29 | 25 | $329.26 |
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 officialWHITE, MELANNIE (PHYSICIAN/SURGEON/OWNER)