Physician
Avera Mckennan
Avera Mckennan was paid $3.24M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 76 billing codes. Its largest line is 74177, Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; with contrast material — 15% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoAVERA MCKENNAN
SIOUX FALLS, SD 57105
SIOUX FALLS, SD 57105
33aNPI1053680678assigned 12/28/2011
33bProvider typeDiagnostic Radiology Physician
28Total paid$3.24M
24GClaims116,758
24DCodes billed76
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Diagnostic Radiology Physician providers in South Dakota
Rank by total paid#2 of 10
Median peer was paid$287K
This provider vs. median11×
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.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
Entity ProliferationAuthorized official PLACE, RONALD controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
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 | 15,944 | $398K | |
| 2019 | 14,623 | $426K | |
| 2020 | 8,335 | $231K | |
| 2021 | 16,212 | $458K | |
| 2022 | 18,598 | $481K | |
| 2023 | 18,211 | $431K | |
| 2024incomplete | 24,835 | $811K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74177 | Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; with contrast material | 15% | 6,699 | 6,013 | $486K |
| 70553 | Magnetic resonance imaging, brain; without contrast material, followed by contrast material and further sequences | 10% | 2,042 | 1,900 | $340K |
| 70450 | Computed tomography, head or brain; without contrast material | 9.4% | 7,702 | 6,190 | $303K |
| 71275 | Computed tomographic angiography, chest, with contrast material | 8.7% | 2,263 | 2,116 | $281K |
| 71045 | Radiologic examination, chest; single view | 5.9% | 28,545 | 14,956 | $190K |
| 49083 | 4.2% | 693 | 269 | $137K | |
| 71260 | Computed tomography, thorax, diagnostic; with contrast material | 3.4% | 1,907 | 1,769 | $110K |
| 74176 | Computed tomography, abdomen and pelvis; without contrast material | 3.4% | 2,473 | 2,234 | $109K |
| 71046 | Radiologic examination, chest; 2 views | 3.2% | 11,885 | 10,629 | $102K |
| 70551 | Magnetic resonance imaging, brain; without contrast material | 3.0% | 1,183 | 1,060 | $97K |
| 76705 | Ultrasound, abdominal, real time with image documentation; limited | 2.4% | 2,961 | 2,631 | $79K |
| 74018 | 2.4% | 9,498 | 5,415 | $77K |
64 more codes
| 72125 | Computed tomography, cervical spine; without contrast material | 2.3% | 1,501 | $74K |
| 73721 | Magnetic resonance imaging, any joint of lower extremity; without contrast material | 2.1% | 713 | $67K |
| 71250 | 1.8% | 1,383 | $58K | |
| 78815 | Positron emission tomography (PET) for limited area imaging | 1.7% | 54 | $55K |
| 70496 | 1.7% | 507 | $54K | |
| 70498 | 1.7% | 513 | $54K | |
| 99152 | 1.3% | 2,022 | $43K | |
| 76770 | 1.2% | 1,357 | $39K | |
| 72148 | Magnetic resonance imaging, lumbar spine; without contrast material | 1.0% | 441 | $33K |
| 93976 | 1.0% | 1,245 | $33K | |
| 73630 | 1.0% | 3,677 | $33K | |
| 76830 | Ultrasound, transvaginal | <1% | 956 | $31K |
| 76700 | Ultrasound, abdominal, real time with image documentation; complete | <1% | 869 | $30K |
| 77067 | Screening mammography, bilateral, including computer-aided detection | <1% | 943 | $28K |
| 73610 | <1% | 2,637 | $25K | |
| 73130 | <1% | 2,266 | $21K | |
| 73110 | <1% | 1,901 | $19K | |
| 73030 | <1% | 1,898 | $16K | |
| 77063 | Screening digital breast tomosynthesis, bilateral | <1% | 834 | $15K |
| 72100 | <1% | 1,291 | $13K | |
| 73502 | <1% | 1,338 | $13K | |
| 73564 | <1% | 1,039 | $12K | |
| 76642 | <1% | 451 | $12K | |
| 73562 | <1% | 1,090 | $11K | |
| 74019 | <1% | 1,079 | $11K | |
| 74230 | <1% | 542 | $10K | |
| 93971 | <1% | 287 | $9K | |
| 70486 | <1% | 172 | $8K | |
| 73140 | <1% | 867 | $7K | |
| 73560 | <1% | 826 | $7K | |
| 36558 | <1% | 12 | $7K | |
| 76937 | <1% | 933 | $6K | |
| 77066 | Tomosynthesis, mammo | <1% | 201 | $6K |
| 76856 | Ultrasound, pelvic (nonobstetric), real time with image documentation; complete | <1% | 162 | $5K |
| 73080 | <1% | 520 | $5K | |
| 93970 | <1% | 113 | $5K | |
| 72141 | <1% | 67 | $4K | |
| 70491 | <1% | 74 | $4K | |
| 74174 | <1% | 27 | $4K | |
| 73590 | <1% | 370 | $4K | |
| 76536 | <1% | 147 | $4K | |
| 73090 | <1% | 342 | $3K | |
| 72156 | <1% | 26 | $3K | |
| 77001 | <1% | 141 | $3K | |
| 72040 | <1% | 271 | $3K | |
| 74178 | <1% | 30 | $3K | |
| 74170 | <1% | 24 | $3K | |
| 76817 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, transvaginal | <1% | 71 | $2K |
| 74183 | <1% | 16 | $1K | |
| G0279 | Diagnostic digital breast tomosynthesis, unilateral or bilateral (list separately in addition to 77065 or 77066) | <1% | 155 | $1K |
| 73700 | <1% | 34 | $1K | |
| 73552 | <1% | 86 | $912.73 | |
| 73221 | <1% | 13 | $839.60 | |
| 93975 | <1% | 14 | $804.53 | |
| 72170 | <1% | 103 | $786.40 | |
| 78452 | Myocardial perfusion imaging, tomographic (SPECT); multiple studies at rest and/or stress | <1% | 17 | $766.89 |
| 77065 | Tomosynthesis, mammo | <1% | 27 | $715.59 |
| 73600 | <1% | 61 | $630.63 | |
| 76857 | <1% | 37 | $579.70 | |
| 72082 | <1% | 27 | $533.62 | |
| 73060 | <1% | 45 | $454.51 | |
| 71101 | <1% | 12 | $187.43 | |
| 73000 | <1% | 14 | $168.84 | |
| 77062 | <1% | 16 | $126.94 |
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.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialPLACE, RONALD (PRESIDENT/CEO)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Avera Mckennan | Sioux Falls, SD | $6.68M |
| Avera Mckennan | Sioux Falls, SD | $5.34M |
| Avera Mckennan | Sioux Falls, SD | $4.07M |
| Avera Mckennan | Sioux Falls, SD | $3.71M |
| Avera Mckennan | Sioux Falls, SD | $1.04M |
| Avera Mckennan | Sioux Falls, SD | $1.03M |
| Avera Mckennan | Sioux Falls, SD | $902K |
| Avera Mckennan | Milbank, SD | $899K |
| Avera Mckennan | Sioux Falls, SD | $815K |
| Avera Mckennan | Sioux Falls, SD | $758K |
| Avera Mckennan | Sioux Falls, SD | $545K |
| Avera Mckennan | Sioux Falls, SD | $318K |
| Avera Mckennan | Rock Rapids, IA | $186K |
| Avera Mckennan | Sioux Falls, SD | $156K |
| Avera Mckennan | Gregory, SD | $80K |
| Avera Mckennan | Mitchell, SD | $70K |
| Avera Mckennan | Sioux Falls, SD | $68K |
| Avera Mckennan | Sioux Falls, SD | $54K |
| Avera Mckennan | Sioux Falls, SD | $54K |
| Avera Mckennan | Flandreau, SD | $53K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.