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What has the City paid on purchase order SC61CO25140185M?

$3.97M paid to 2 different vendors (the largest, Medata LLC, received $3.0M) across 7 payments from November 15, 2024 to April 23, 2025, charged to Non-Departmental / Contractual Services.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

2 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $4.0M above is the whole order, not the spend of whichever vendor you arrived from. The City uses these for standing arrangements like outside counsel, library materials and expert witnesses. Per-vendor amounts are below.

What it was for

Contractual Services

Budget line.

Order description, as published:

WORK COMP MEDICAL BILL REVIEW

Approval records

No council file, contract number or payment authority appears in this order's checkbook records.

Order dated September 20, 2024.

Paid from

General Fund

discretionary tax dollars — this competes with police, fire, parks and everything else.

Department: Non-Departmental

Paid to

Medata LLC$3.0M · 5 payments
Medata Inc$1.0M · 2 payments

Every payment, in order

Payment requests are numbered sequentially by the City, so the order here is the order they were approved. Several requests clearing on one day usually means invoices were held and released together.

#PaidInvoicedLagReferenceAmount
1November 15, 2024October 30, 202416dWC MED BILL$ UTILIZATION REV SEPTMBER 2024$390,981
2December 26, 2024December 4, 202422dWC MED BILL REVIEW$621,580
3March 13, 2025December 20, 202483dWC MED BILL REVIEW$584,452
4March 25, 2025January 24, 202560dWC MED BILL REVIEW$594,624
5March 25, 2025February 12, 202541dWC MED BILL REVIEW$582,940
6March 27, 2025March 18, 20259dWC MED BILL REVIEW$586,456
7April 23, 2025April 15, 20258dWC MED BILL REVIEW$605,422

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Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn), read live and grouped by po_num, which is populated on about 90% of payments. Council files link to the City Clerk's Council File Management System. The City's biggest contracts · The checkbook.