Joanna Acosta
Physician Assistant · Covina, CA
Joanna Acosta is a physician assistant with a practice address in Covina, California, and NPI 1437620283, issued on Dec 5, 2018. Check the license with the California board that licenses this profession; the Medicare figures below come from public CMS files.
- Name
- Joanna Acosta
- Primary taxonomy
- Physician Assistant 363A00000X
- Practice location
- 236 W College St, Covina, CA 91723
- Phone
- (626) 608-7320
- Enumerated
- Dec 5, 2018
- Record last updated
- May 14, 2019 (not updated in 7 years: call before relying on the address or phone)
- Medicare enrollment
- Enrolled (PECOS I20190711002635); accepts Medicare assignment
- Entity
- Type 1 · individual
Also registered at 236 W College St
A shared address usually means a shared clinic or building; it does not show who employs whom.
- Austin ChangPhysician Assistant1710526983
- James Kim, M.D.Interventional Pain Medicine Physician1649698481
- Jessica Kuo, MDPain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician1205465085
- Rosalyne Leong, PA-CMedical Physician Assistant1306186101
- Dharmesh Mehta, MDInterventional Pain Medicine Physician1114980760
Verify Joanna Acosta in five checks
- 1IdentityNPI record in CMS NPPESNPI lookupConfirmed in NPPES
- 2LicenseActive license and public ordersWhich California board licenses this professionCheck the board
- 3Other statesLicenses and actions elsewhereDocInfo (FSMB)Not checked
- 4ExclusionsMedicare and Medicaid bansHHS-OIG exclusion listNot checked
- 5CertificationBoard certificationABMS AOA NCCPA AANPNot checked
3.5 times the Medicare Part D claims of the average physician assistant in 2024
2,941 Medicare Part D claims for 490 beneficiaries, against an average of 830 among the 101,058 providers of this specialty who prescribed in Part D. Brand-name drugs were 2% of claims. 1,484 claims were for opioids.
Most prescribed
- Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen810 claims
- Gabapentin307 claims
- Tramadol Hcl267 claims
- Oxycodone-Acetaminophen202 claims
- Ibuprofen155 claims
- Pregabalin132 claims
Source: CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers by Provider and Drug, 2024 (data.cms.gov). Part D covers prescriptions for Medicare patients only; drugs with fewer than 11 claims are not published.
No measured MIPS final score for 2023
CMS assigned the neutral MIPS final score of 75 without scoring Quality, Cost, Promoting Interoperability or Improvement Activities. It is an administrative threshold, so PlainDoctor does not compare it with measured clinicians.
Source: CMS Quality Payment Program, MIPS performance year 2023, group reporting; category weights for 2023 (qpp.cms.gov).
Industry payments in 2024: $447.81
19 payments; by number, the most common kind was food and beverage; the largest payer was Forte Bio-Pharma LLC. The 64,719 providers of this specialty with any payment received $841.65 on average. Payments are reported by manufacturers, not by the provider, and are not a sign of wrongdoing.
Source: CMS Open Payments, program year 2024 (openpaymentsdata.cms.gov); average among providers of this specialty with at least one payment.
Bills Medicare through one group practice
- Foothills Pain Management Clinic PCCovina, CA
Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (the group practices a clinician bills Medicare through) (data.cms.gov).
28 physician assistant records list a practice address in Covina
They are 28 of the 3,736 NPPES records with a practice address in Covina, and 14,451 physician assistant records in California.
All 28 in Covina → All 14,451 in California → Every provider in Covina →
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- Angela Abboud, MMS, PA-CSanta Rosa, CA1114399334
Common questions
What is Joanna Acosta's NPI number?
Joanna Acosta's National Provider Identifier (NPI) is 1437620283, issued on Dec 5, 2018. An NPI identifies a provider in billing; it is not a license.
Where is Joanna Acosta located?
The NPPES record lists a practice address at 236 W College St, Covina, CA, 91723. Phone: (626) 608-7320. Providers update this record themselves, so call before visiting.
How can I verify Joanna Acosta's license?
Search the California board that licenses this profession; the NPPES record confirms identity only.
How much does Joanna Acosta prescribe under Medicare Part D?
In 2024, Joanna Acosta had 2,941 Medicare Part D claims for 490 beneficiaries; the average among physician assistant prescribers was 830. Part D covers Medicare prescriptions only.
What is Joanna Acosta's MIPS final score?
CMS assigned the neutral MIPS final score of 75 for 2023 without scoring any category, so it is not a measured result.
Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy. Medicare files from data.cms.gov. An NPI identifies who bills; it is not a license.
Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Aug 9, 2026.