Wheeler, Darrell

Wheeler, Darrell was paid $368K by Medicaid between Jul 2020 and Aug 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 99479, Subsequent intensive care, per day, very low birth weight infant — 52% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoWHEELER, DARRELL
WACO, TX 76712

33aNPI1124241435assigned 04/11/2007

33bProvider typeNeonatal-Perinatal Medicine Physician

28Total paid$368K

24GClaims2,699

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthJul 2020 – Aug 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Physician providers in Texas

Rank by total paid#14 of 37

Median peer was paid$139K

This provider vs. median2.7×

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
2020	329	$34K
2021	1,356	$198K
2022	821	$98K
2023	167	$37K
2024incomplete	26	$2K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99479	Subsequent intensive care, per day, very low birth weight infant	52%	1,625	161	$192K
99468		22%	96	96	$81K
99480	Subsequent intensive care, per day, low birth weight infant	15%	474	139	$54K
99239	Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes	10.0%	492	483	$37K
99477		1.2%	12	12	$4K

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.