Clinician Utilization Data (NPI:1508905159)

HEALTHCARE PROVIDER: CHRISTOPHER C LAI

This is the first set utilization data for clinicians publicly reported.
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NPI:1508905159 CHRISTOPHER C LAI

Physician Information
NPI	1508905159
	Unique healthcare provider (clinician) ID assigned by NPPES
PECOS UID	5193638328
	Unique individual clinician ID assigned by PECOS
State of Practice	CA
	Individual clinician's state of practice
Primary medical specialty	ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY
	Primary medical specialty reported by the individual clinician in the selected PECOS enrollment

Clinician Utilization Data
HCPCS Procedural Code	HCPCS Code Description	Beneficiary Count	Service Count
20550	Injections of tendon sheath, ligament, or muscle membrane	27	29
20610	Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule	16	16
20611	Aspiration and/or injection of major joint or joint capsule with recording and reporting using ultrasound guidance	242	545
27447	Repair of knee joint	17	17
76942	Ultrasonic guidance imaging supervision and interpretation for insertion of needle	39	44
G0180	Physician certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians to affirm the initial implem	15	15

Clinician Utilization Metadata
HCPCS Procedural Code	Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) procedural code billed by the individual clinician
HCPCS Code Description	Description of the HCPCS code for the specific medical service furnished by the individual clinician. HCPCS descriptions associated with CPT codes are consumer friendly descriptions provided by the AMA. CPT Consumer Friendly Descriptors are lay synonyms for CPT descriptors that are intended to help healthcare consumers who are not medical professionals understand clinical procedures on bills and patient portals. CPT Consumer Friendly Descriptors should not be used for clinical coding or documentation. All other descriptions are CMS Level II descriptions provided in long form. Due to variable length restrictions, the CMS Level II descriptions have been truncated to 256 bytes. As a result, the same HCPCS description can be associated with more than one HCPCS code. For complete CMS Level II descriptions, visit https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/HCPCSReleaseCodeSets/ Alpha-Numeric-HCPCS.html.
Beneficiary Count	The number of eligible beneficiaries that received the service or procedure identified by the individual clinician's HCPCS code
Service Count	Frequency of individual clinician's performance of the associated HCPCS code within the specified calendar year