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Wearden, Steven

Wearden, Steven was paid $5K by Medicaid between Feb 2023 and Aug 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 92004, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient — 73% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoWEARDEN, STEVEN
ANDERSON, SC 29621
33aNPI1043280829assigned 01/25/2006
33bProvider typeOptometrist
28Total paid$5K
24GClaims221
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthFeb 2023 – Aug 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Optometrist providers in South Carolina

Rank by total paid#288 of 425
Median peer was paid$22K
This provider vs. median0.2×

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

$0$500$1.0K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
202388$2K
2024incomplete133$2K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
92004 Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, comprehensive, new patient 73% 70 70 $3K
92015 Determination of refractive state 27% 151 150 $1K

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.