Physician
Lake Charles Medical Services Orthopedics Associates LLC
Lake Charles Medical Services Orthopedics Associates LLC was paid $1.20M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 34 billing codes. Its largest line is 99213, doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) — 24% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLAKE CHARLES MEDICAL SERVICES ORTHOPEDICS ASSOCIATES LLC
LAKE CHARLES, LA 70601
LAKE CHARLES, LA 70601
33aNPI1962695361assigned 08/20/2007
33bProvider typeOrthopaedic Surgery Physician
28Total paid$1.20M
24GClaims52,527
24DCodes billed34
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Orthopaedic Surgery Physician providers in Louisiana
Rank by total paid#5 of 46
Median peer was paid$10K
This provider vs. median115×
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.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
Entity ProliferationAuthorized official JOHNSON-HATCHER, DAWN controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
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 | 4,413 | $124K | |
| 2019 | 6,271 | $112K | |
| 2020 | 4,892 | $98K | |
| 2021 | 8,058 | $164K | |
| 2022 | 10,555 | $271K | |
| 2023 | 10,691 | $247K | |
| 2024incomplete | 7,647 | $182K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 24% | 11,350 | 9,649 | $291K |
| 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 | 21% | 7,717 | 6,290 | $256K |
| 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 | 18% | 3,769 | 3,104 | $215K |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | 10.0% | 2,985 | 2,636 | $119K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 4.0% | 1,726 | 296 | $48K |
| 20610 | 4.0% | 2,392 | 1,974 | $47K | |
| 73610 | 2.7% | 2,738 | 1,985 | $33K | |
| 27447 | 2.3% | 39 | 37 | $28K | |
| 73630 | 2.3% | 2,184 | 1,716 | $28K | |
| 73562 | 1.9% | 1,676 | 1,325 | $22K | |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 1.3% | 397 | 168 | $16K |
| 99215 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (complex)Prolong outpt/office vis | 1.2% | 242 | 225 | $14K |
22 more codes
| 73030 | 1.1% | 1,295 | $14K | |
| 73110 | <1% | 830 | $10K | |
| L4360 | Walking boot, pneumatic and/or vacuum, with or without joints, with or without interface material, prefabricated item that has been trimmed, bent, molded, assembled, or otherwise customized to fit a specific patient by an individual with expertise | <1% | 77 | $9K |
| L4361 | Walking boot, pneumatic and/or vacuum, with or without joints, with or without interface material, prefabricated, off-the-shelf | <1% | 60 | $8K |
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | <1% | 456 | $6K |
| 73560 | <1% | 638 | $6K | |
| 73564 | <1% | 396 | $6K | |
| 73130 | <1% | 333 | $5K | |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | <1% | 38 | $3K |
| 73502 | <1% | 197 | $3K | |
| 73590 | <1% | 167 | $2K | |
| L3908 | Wrist hand orthosis, wrist extension control cock-up, non molded, prefabricated, off-the-shelf | <1% | 90 | $2K |
| 99239 | Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes | <1% | 58 | $2K |
| 29075 | <1% | 38 | $2K | |
| 73140 | <1% | 103 | $1K | |
| J3301 | Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg | <1% | 1,752 | $820.82 |
| L1902 | Ankle orthosis, ankle gauntlet or similar, with or without joints, prefabricated, off-the-shelf | <1% | 24 | $657.27 |
| 99221 | <1% | 28 | $637.69 | |
| 73100 | <1% | 37 | $573.44 | |
| J0702 | Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg | <1% | 154 | $52.02 |
| 99024 | <1% | 8,245 | $19.61 | |
| J1030 | Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg | <1% | 296 | $8.52 |
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 officialJOHNSON-HATCHER, DAWN (CFO)
Parent organizationLAKE CHARLES MEDICAL SERVICES INC
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