Starnes, Kenneth

Starnes, Kenneth was paid $203K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2020, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 99285, emergency room visit (most serious) — 36% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSTARNES, KENNETH
PINEY FLATS, TN 37686

33aNPI1003904723assigned 10/10/2006

33bProvider typePhysician Assistant

28Total paid$203K

24GClaims4,408

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2020

Compared with peers

Next to other Physician Assistant providers in Tennessee

Rank by total paid#40 of 200

Median peer was paid$36K

This provider vs. median5.6×

Peers share this provider's primary NPPES type and state. Size alone says nothing about billing quality: a big agency or a hospital system is expected to sit far above the median.

Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

Paid that monthNov–Dec 2024: claims still arriving when the file was cut, so these months run low for every provider

By year, as a table

Year	Claims	Paid
2018	1,883	$87K
2019	1,702	$77K
2020	823	$40K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99285	Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life	36%	1,121	1,009	$73K
99284	Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity	32%	1,155	1,041	$65K
99283	Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity	32%	1,750	1,603	$64K
93010	Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only	<1%	329	284	$801.14
99406		<1%	53	52	$1.61

Claims and beneficiary counts add up across code × month rows, so one patient seen every month counts many times. Rows with fewer than 12 claims are suppressed by HHS, so small lines can be missing.