Gerdes, Gerald
Gerdes, Gerald was paid $3.09M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 25 billing codes. Its largest line is 92014, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient — 33% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoGERDES, GERALD
OAKDALE, LA 71463
OAKDALE, LA 71463
33aNPI1013056308assigned 02/05/2007
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$3.09M
24GClaims123,037
24DCodes billed25
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Optometrist providers in Louisiana
Rank by total paid#7 of 442
Median peer was paid$199K
This provider vs. median16×
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 | 30,438 | $870K | |
| 2019 | 32,664 | $803K | |
| 2020 | 29,005 | $697K | |
| 2021 | 8,438 | $194K | |
| 2022 | 7,432 | $151K | |
| 2023 | 10,590 | $274K | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,470 | $101K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92014 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, established patient | 33% | 14,775 | 13,692 | $1.03M |
| 92004 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient | 21% | 7,567 | 7,053 | $635K |
| V2020 | Frames, purchases | 13% | 26,778 | 24,640 | $402K |
| V2103 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | 11% | 18,682 | 16,828 | $330K |
| 99211 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, minimal severity | 9.0% | 22,683 | 20,991 | $277K |
| V2200 | Sphere, bifocal, plano to plus or minus 4.00d, per lens | 4.8% | 3,138 | 2,726 | $148K |
| V2100 | Sphere, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00, per lens | 2.9% | 4,758 | 4,397 | $89K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 1.3% | 1,189 | 998 | $39K |
| 92250 | 1.1% | 1,274 | 1,052 | $35K | |
| S0580 | Polycarbonate lens (list this code in addition to the basic code for the lens) | <1% | 1,060 | 950 | $30K |
| 92340 | Fitting of spectacles, except for aphakia; monofocal | <1% | 2,602 | 2,492 | $30K |
| 92082 | <1% | 442 | 410 | $15K |
13 more codes
| V2799 | Vision item or service, miscellaneous | <1% | 820 | $10K |
| 92133 | <1% | 476 | $8K | |
| V2781 | Progressive lens, per lens | <1% | 96 | $6K |
| 92341 | <1% | 286 | $3K | |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | <1% | 15,884 | $3K |
| V2104 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plano to plus or minus 4.00d sphere, 2.12 to 4.00d cylinder, per lens | <1% | 88 | $2K |
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | <1% | 43 | $819.36 |
| V2107 | Spherocylinder, single vision, plus or minus 4.25 to plus or minus 7.00 sphere, .12 to 2.00d cylinder, per lens | <1% | 40 | $717.83 |
| V2784 | Lens, polycarbonate or equal, any index, per lens | <1% | 70 | $400.00 |
| 76514 | <1% | 53 | $357.15 | |
| 99214 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) | <1% | 16 | $2.64 |
| 3072F | 0% | 200 | $0.00 | |
| V2750 | Anti-reflective coating, per lens | 0% | 17 | $0.00 |
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.