Treatment Tracker
The Doctors and Services in Medicare Part B
This database was last updated in December 2017. It should only be used as a historical snapshot. More recent data is available via the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ lookup tool.
How This Provider Compares
This Provider
Avg in State & Specialty
Providers in this state and specialty were reimbursed, on average, $469 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 13 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.
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How This Provider’s Patients Compare
Doctors often say their patients are sicker or more complex than those of their peers. The measure displayed below, used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, takes into account patients’ characteristics to estimate whether they are expected to have above-average Medicare spending. It considers patients’ age, sex, diagnoses from the past year and other factors. This provider’s score below takes into account all of his Part B patients.
This Provider's Services
This provider performed 44 different services in 2015
(30 were redacted as they were performed on less than 11 patients)
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CATEGORYDescription of Service |
Times Performed (or Units) | This Service's Rank | Patients | Unique Visits Per Patient |
Billed to Medicare | Payments from Medicare |
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EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTEstablished patient office or other outpatient, visit typ... + Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes × Service Code: 99214Performed in an office |
297 times performed, 23% of his services |
1st 5th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
150 patients got this service, 56% of his patients |
2 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 2.5) |
$93,555.00an average of $315.00 per time performed |
$28,618.92 an average of $96.36 per time performed |
DRUGSInjection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specif... + Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg × Service Code: J3301Performed in an office |
180 times performed, 14% of his services |
2nd 9th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
35 patients got this service, 13% of his patients |
1.3 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 2.1) |
$900.00an average of $5.00 per time performed |
$250.20 an average of $1.39 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTNew patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 4... + New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes × Service Code: 99204Performed in an office |
139 times performed, 11% of his services |
3rd 19th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
139 patients got this service, 52% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$66,442.00an average of $478.00 per time performed |
$20,576.17 an average of $148.03 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTEstablished patient office or other outpatient, visit typ... + Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes × Service Code: 99215Performed in an office |
68 times performed, 5% of his services |
4th 22nd most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
60 patients got this service, 22% of his patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 2.1) |
$28,560.00an average of $420.00 per time performed |
$8,509.52 an average of $125.14 per time performed |
MEDICINEModerate sedation services by physician also performing a... + Moderate sedation services by physician also performing a procedure, patient 5 years of age or older, first 30 minutes × Service Code: 99144Performed in a facility |
67 times performed, 5% of his services |
5th 34th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
46 patients got this service, 17% of his patients |
1.5 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.5) |
$5,494.00an average of $82.00 per time performed |
$2,550.69 an average of $38.07 per time performed |
MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEMAspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule + Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule × Service Code: 20610Performed in an office |
39 times performed, 3% of his services |
6th 26th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
28 patients got this service, 10% of his patients |
1.3 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 2.1) |
$11,590.02an average of $297.18 per time performed |
$2,077.53 an average of $53.27 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTProlonged office or other outpatient service first hour Service Code: 99354Performed in an office |
31 times performed, 2% of his services |
7th 127th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
29 patients got this service, 11% of his patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.7) |
$8,773.00an average of $283.00 per time performed |
$2,824.72 an average of $91.12 per time performed |
MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEMInjections of trigger points in 3 or more muscles Service Code: 20553Performed in an office |
28 times performed, 2% of his services |
8th 45th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
21 patients got this service, 8% of his patients |
1.3 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 2.6) |
$6,748.00an average of $241.00 per time performed |
$1,655.36 an average of $59.12 per time performed |
MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEMInjections of trigger points in 1 or 2 muscles Service Code: 20552Performed in an office |
27 times performed, 2% of his services |
9th 46th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
20 patients got this service, 7% of his patients |
1.4 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 2) |
$5,456.97an average of $202.11 per time performed |
$1,335.96 an average of $49.48 per time performed |
NERVOUS SYSTEMInjections of substances into lower or sacral spine Service Code: 62311Performed in a facility |
26 times performed, 2% of his services |
10th 71st most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
23 patients got this service, 9% of his patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.3) |
$23,893.48an average of $918.98 per time performed |
$1,921.92 an average of $73.92 per time performed |
NERVOUS SYSTEMInjections of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into lower o... + Injections of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into lower or sacral spine nerve root using imaging guidance × Service Code: 64484Performed in a facility |
23 times performed, 2% of his services |
11th 33rd most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
19 patients got this service, 7% of his patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.3) |
$14,950.00an average of $650.00 per time performed |
$1,099.40 an average of $47.80 per time performed |
NERVOUS SYSTEMInjections of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into lower o... + Injections of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into lower or sacral spine nerve root using imaging guidance × Service Code: 64483Performed in a facility |
22 times performed, 2% of his services |
12th 24th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
21 patients got this service, 8% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.3) |
$31,139.90an average of $1,415.45 per time performed |
$2,379.96 an average of $108.18 per time performed |
NERVOUS SYSTEMInjections of lower or sacral spine facet joint using ima... + Injections of lower or sacral spine facet joint using imaging guidance × Service Code: 64493Performed in a facility |
20 times performed, 2% of his services |
13th 62nd most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
14 patients got this service, 5% of his patients |
1.4 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.4) |
$28,294.00an average of $1,414.70 per time performed |
$2,136.00 an average of $106.80 per time performed |
NERVOUS SYSTEMInjections of lower or sacral spine facet joint using ima... + Injections of lower or sacral spine facet joint using imaging guidance × Service Code: 64494Performed in a facility |
16 times performed, 1% of his services |
14th 70th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
11 patients got this service, 4% of his patients |
1.5 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.4) |
$8,840.00an average of $552.50 per time performed |
$977.60 an average of $61.10 per time performed |
Office Visits
Medicare reimburses office visits using a five-point scale, with five being the most intensive and costly. The chart below shows what percentage of this provider’s office visits were reimbursed at each level. A higher than average proportion of costly visits is not necessarily an indication of a problem, but it may be worth asking about.
This provider charged Medicare for a higher percentage of 5’s than his peers.
Lawrence Po Huang
Average for Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Providers in California
Notes: Medicare redacted this data for any services provided to fewer than 11 patients. The contact information listed above is the most current we have for this provider. The services listed on this page may have been delivered at a previous address or as part of a different practice.
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Sources: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Plan and Provider Enumeration System, American Medical Association
Services that begin with a letter come from CMS. All other codes and descriptions of the medical procedures are from the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set, copyright 2015 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. Where practical, AMA’s consumer friendly translation of the CPT descriptor was used. ProPublica has received permission from the AMA to use these codes on this site.