Tagaloa-Tulifau Foot and Ankle Center, INC.
Tagaloa-Tulifau Foot and Ankle Center, INC. was paid $104K by Medicaid between Feb 2019 and Oct 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 11721, — 26% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoTAGALOA-TULIFAU FOOT AND ANKLE CENTER, INC.
LAKEWOOD, CA 90712
LAKEWOOD, CA 90712
33aNPI1972086882assigned 09/07/2018
33bProvider typeFoot & Ankle Surgery Podiatrist
28Total paid$104K
24GClaims4,625
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthFeb 2019 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Foot & Ankle Surgery Podiatrist providers in California
Rank by total paid#102 of 384
Median peer was paid$24K
This provider vs. median4.4×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 664 | $11K | |
| 2020 | 532 | $13K | |
| 2021 | 538 | $14K | |
| 2022 | 1,029 | $25K | |
| 2023 | 1,082 | $24K | |
| 2024incomplete | 780 | $17K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11721 | 26% | 1,267 | 1,253 | $27K | |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 26% | 1,206 | 1,069 | $27K |
| 73630 | 22% | 1,148 | 638 | $23K | |
| 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 | 9.6% | 148 | 148 | $10K |
| 11056 | 8.7% | 689 | 678 | $9K | |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | 4.8% | 115 | 114 | $5K |
| L3000 | Foot, insert, removable, molded to patient model, 'ucb' type, berkeley shell, each | 2.4% | 36 | 18 | $3K |
| 93923 | 1.1% | 16 | 16 | $1K |
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 officialTAGALOA-TULIFAU, MAFUTAGA (MEDICAL DIRECTOR)