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.
ALBERT TSAI M.D.
LONG BEACH, CA, 90806
How This Provider Compares
This Provider
Avg in State & Specialty
Providers in this state and specialty were reimbursed, on average, $565 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 16 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.
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Note: About 19% of this provider’s Medicare payments were for drugs administered in his office.
This is intended to reimburse the provider for purchasing the drugs, plus an additional percentage for overhead.
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 69 different services in 2015
(55 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 15 minutes × Service Code: 99213Performed in an office |
588 times performed, 26% of his services |
1st 1st most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
313 patients got this service, 79% of his patients |
1.9 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 2.1) |
$115,547.88an average of $196.51 per time performed |
$34,268.64 an average of $58.28 per time performed |
DRUGSInjection, betamethasone acetate 3mg and betamethasone so... + Injection, betamethasone acetate 3mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3mg × Service Code: J0702Performed in an office |
441 times performed, 20% of his services |
2nd 121st most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
95 patients got this service, 24% of his patients |
1.2 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.5) |
$6,707.61an average of $15.21 per time performed |
$2,037.42 an average of $4.62 per time performed |
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Aspiration and/or injection of major joint or joint capsu... + Aspiration and/or injection of major joint or joint capsule with recording and reporting using ultrasound guidance × Service Code: 20611Performed in an office |
281 times performed, 13% of his services |
3rd 134th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
113 patients got this service, 28% of his patients |
2.5 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 2.5) |
$74,198.05an average of $264.05 per time performed |
$22,193.38 an average of $78.98 per time performed |
DRUGSHyaluronan or derivative, orthovisc, for intra-articular ... + Hyaluronan or derivative, orthovisc, for intra-articular injection, per dose × Service Code: J7324Performed in an office |
180 times performed, 8% of his services |
4th 259th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
54 patients got this service, 14% of his patients |
3.3 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 3.4) |
$75,749.40an average of $420.83 per time performed |
$24,489.00 an average of $136.05 per time performed |
RADIOLOGYX-ray of knee, 4 or more views Service Code: 73564Performed in an office |
155 times performed, 7% of his services |
5th 256th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
131 patients got this service, 33% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.1) |
$18,035.80an average of $116.36 per time performed |
$5,332.00 an average of $34.40 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTNew patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 3... + New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes × Service Code: 99203Performed in an office |
117 times performed, 5% of his services |
6th 43rd most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
117 patients got this service, 29% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$33,780.24an average of $288.72 per time performed |
$9,915.75 an average of $84.75 per time performed |
RADIOLOGYX-ray of both hips minimum 2 views Service Code: 73520Performed in an office |
93 times performed, 4% of his services |
7th 621st most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
87 patients got this service, 22% of his patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.1) |
$10,553.64an average of $113.48 per time performed |
$3,147.12 an average of $33.84 per time performed |
RADIOLOGYX-ray of shoulder, minimum of 2 views Service Code: 73030Performed in an office |
50 times performed, 2% of his services |
8th 219th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
45 patients got this service, 11% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.2) |
$4,184.00an average of $83.68 per time performed |
$1,243.00 an average of $24.86 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 a facility |
28 times performed, 1% of his services |
9th 586th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
26 patients got this service, 7% of his patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.2) |
$4,873.96an average of $174.07 per time performed |
$550.76 an average of $19.67 per time performed |
RADIOLOGYX-ray of wrist, minimum of 3 views Service Code: 73110Performed in an office |
28 times performed, 1% of his services |
10th 437th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
18 patients got this service, 5% of his patients |
1.4 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.3) |
$2,864.12an average of $102.29 per time performed |
$872.76 an average of $31.17 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 |
26 times performed, 1% of his services |
11th 71st most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
24 patients got this service, 6% of his patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.9) |
$4,358.12an average of $167.62 per time performed |
$1,276.86 an average of $49.11 per time performed |
RADIOLOGYX-ray of hand, minimum of 3 views Service Code: 73130Performed in an office |
21 times performed, 0.94% of his services |
12th 407th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
15 patients got this service, 4% of his patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.1) |
$1,827.00an average of $87.00 per time performed |
$535.29 an average of $25.49 per time performed |
RADIOLOGYX-ray of elbow, minimum of 3 views Service Code: 73080Performed in an office |
17 times performed, 0.76% of his services |
13th 925th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
16 patients got this service, 4% of his patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.2) |
$1,549.04an average of $91.12 per time performed |
$447.61 an average of $26.33 per time performed |
RADIOLOGYX-ray of lower and sacral spine, 2 or 3 views Service Code: 72100Performed in an office |
15 times performed, 0.67% of his services |
14th 293rd most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
15 patients got this service, 4% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.2) |
$1,513.05an average of $100.87 per time performed |
$460.95 an average of $30.73 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 did not bill Medicare for any 5’s.
Albert M Tsai
Average for Specialist 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.